Criminal Records Bureau

noun

1. (in England and Wales) a service offering employers and voluntary organizations access to police, health, and education records

Example Sentences

Graves was arrested in 2005, but not suspended until 2008 when the diocese carried out a Criminal Records Bureau check.

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She accepted that Fitzsimons, who she said had come across as engaging, smart and professional in his interview, was deployed to Iraq without up-to-date references, with no Criminal Records Bureau check and with a forged medical certificate.

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Ms Cooper told the BBC's Andrew Marr: "I think we need much stronger checks in place, that must include a requirement on people applying for British citizenship to provide the equivalent of the Criminal Records Bureau checks from their own country."

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Crucially, the criminal records bureau certificate was never obtained.

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In March 2012, new figures from the criminal records bureau revealed the the checks had prevented more than 130,000 unsuitable people, including rapists and paedophiles, from working with children or vulnerable groups.

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