Canada

  UK Fingerprints   -   The UK’s Oldest, Full-Time, Professional Fingerprint Agency

All Fingerprint Officers are ex Law Enforcement | Former members of Scotland Yard’s Fingerprint Branch or detectives

UK Home Office Registered Fingerprint Experts | All operate as Certified Fingerprint Officers (CFO)

All previously government vetted | DBS (formerly CRB) cleared

Members of the Fingerprint Society (MFS) | Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences (CSFS) |The Forensic Science Society (M.F.S.Soc) | The International Association for Identification (IAI) 

 

BRIEF BACKGROUND

The Canadian National Repository of Criminal Records is maintained by The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) - http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/criminal-record-and-vulnerable-sector-checks

 

IMPORTANT…….you can no longer submit digital or rolled ink prints direct to the RCMP. They must go via an Accredited Canadian Criminal Real Time Identification Service (CCRTIS). When received they are scanned and sent electronically to the RCMP on your behalf. The RCMP will send your certificate direct to your nominated address by ordinary mail. There are no Accredited CCRTIS Agencies outside of Canada.

On 23 December 2020, the RCMP issued a new Directive regarding the taking of fingerprints outside of Canada by a Non-Government Agency such as UK Fingerprints. Such an Agency must be an Approved Affiliate of an Accredited CCRTIS. We are an Approved Affiliate operating under a Memorandum of Understanding with Pacific Fingerprint Services Inc (part of the ClearNeed Group) www.pacificfingerprintservice.ca in compliance with the RCMP Directive.

UK Fingerprints can only take your prints for submission to the RCMP for a Certified Criminal Record if they are being submitted by Pacific Fingerprint Services Inc.

 

To submit prints via an Accredited Agent for a Criminal Record Check you must:

1. have your fingerprints taken in ink by UK Fingerprints
2. complete a Third-Party Consent Form which requires a print of your right thumb
3. produce one coloured copy of primary ID, and
4. one secondary coloured copy piece of ID from the approved list they provide
5. a completed Credit Card Authorisation Form
6. have a passport photograph (Canadian or UK size) signed by the person taking your prints

Items 1 to 6, when completed, must then be sent by you to Pacific Fingerprint Services Inc. We recommend that they are sent via a courier service. This will ensure that the package arrives in a timely manner and is also tracked. We cannot send them for you because of the new GDPR laws.

“Vulnerable sector checks can only be done for organizations in Canada. The position itself can be outside of Canada, but the results of the vulnerable sector check must stay within Canada. The applicant applies to the Canadian police service where he/she lives. The Canadian police service conducting the vulnerable sector check may ask for more information. The police service will use this information to determine if the position meets the legal requirements to conduct a vulnerable sector check. If the position does not meet the requirements of the Criminal Records Act for a vulnerable sector check, it is illegal for the police service to conduct one.”

 

Fees:

The UK Fingerprints fee is £81 including VAT which includes providing the paperwork at items 1 to 6 above and assisting you to complete them. Additional sets of prints are £30 including VAT.

In addition, the Pacific Fingerprint Services Inc fee is $189 which you pay directly to them on the Credit Card Authorisation Form provided. That amount includes their fee, local taxes and the fee to the RCMP which they pay on your behalf out of the $189.