International Criminal History
International Criminal Court Check
GIS reports all criminal information found in an overseas courthouse’s records as it conforms to local data privacy regulations, statutory provisions regulating legal employment access, and your criteria including felonies and/or misdemeanor offenses. Though it depends on a country’s criminal justice system, most countries provide for three tiers within the justice system. The tiers are usually comprised of a local (city) or district level, provincial level and federal level. Research for relevant criminal court information is best accomplished initially at the district or city court level when available. Court files are usually archived manually with very little automation and require local investigative personnel to travel to remote locations. Records may also be available through a local prosecutor’s office requiring a similar approach to data collection.
Reports will include the country, province or city where a record exists, sentence, date of sentence, case number, date of the offense, classification (felony or misdemeanor offense) and defendant’s name, address and date of birth. GIS will only report criminal records if we are able to verify the identity of the individual using two identifiers. Typically, this is name and date of birth, name and address, or name and country identification number.
- Data Source: Public Record Indices / Repository
- Availability: Varies greatly by country and permissibility
- Time: Varies greatly based on type of search and country
International Police Records Check
GIS reports criminal information found in police records maintained by local law enforcement agencies and/or Central Criminal Justice Agencies as it conforms to local data privacy regulations, statutory provisions regulating legal employment access and your criteria. Information held by these agencies is generally obtained through the applicant themselves via “Subject Access Request.” Information retrieval requirements, process and timetables will vary by country. In most cases information maintained in these files provides arrest record data with very little adjudicative findings. A manual search may be required at the local precinct level. Searches that come back with a record associated with an applicant may require additional efforts to determine the adjudicative outcome from the relevant court.
- Data Source: Public Record Indices / Repository / Law Enforcement Agency
- Availability: Varies greatly by country & permissibility
- Time: Varies greatly based on type of search and country
GlobalWatch™ Limited Criminal Record Check
Due to lack of centralized criminal information systems abroad and legal access to local court records, GIS presents GlobalWatch™. Our proprietary enhanced due diligence investigative suite is ideal for multinational employers who need comprehensive background information on international applicants.
GlobalWatch™ consists of several modules geared towards examining information sources around the globe. These modules can tell us if a person is a known or suspected terrorist, denied persons, Specially Designated National (SDN), money launderer, drug king pin, Politically Exposed Person (PEP); or the subject of a regulatory, administrative, civil or criminal action.
GlobalWatch™ searches include: global regulatory authorities checks, global compliance checks, financial crime investigative database search, US, European and Asian politically exposed persons database search, money laundering, corporate scandals and terrorist financing database search, stolen passport database search and foreign press search (translated into English).
The inclusion of GlobalWatch™ supplements the traditional international background reporting process and helps mitigate the inaccessibility and inadequacy of traditional criminal court or police record checks.
- Data Source: Public Record Indices / Regulatory Authorities / Repositories / Proprietary Data Sources/ Foreign Press Sources
- Availability: Worldwide
- Time: 5-10 business days