How can background screening help you streamline hiring processes?

Background screening prospective employees is a key tool in any HR professional’s hiring toolkit – one that’s required to ensure you hire the candidate that is the best fit for your organization.

Tools work best when they’re used as they are designed and often they work best in the hands of an expert. For pre-employment screening that means partnering with an experienced organization – one with the depth of service options to meet all of your hiring needs. Trusted by Canadian businesses for over 85 years, Commissionaires delivers value to hundreds of companies and government departments across Canada. “We didn’t consider anyone else because Commissionaires offered everything we needed and was an obvious solution. We also knew that the cost was reasonable,” says Suzann Park Macleod, First Air.

Non-Core Policing – A Case Study

City of London

Challenges

In 1988, London’s municipal by-law enforcement and parking department was challenged toreduce the escalating costs associated with its operation – human resources, departmentalvehicle maintenance, training, etc. At the same time, they were asked to increase revenuefrom the city’s parking lots and meters and accommodate a growing population withoutcompromising service.

Commissionaires already had a long-standing history of providing security guards to the Cityand were well-positioned to assist the by-law enforcement detachment.

Do you have a criminal record, but want to travel to the U.S.? Read This!

If you have a record and haven’t yet been flagged by U.S. Authorities – Don’t go to the U.S. until you have a Record Suspension (Pardon).

It is illegal to attempt to enter the U.S. with a criminal record, unless you have a U.S. Entry Waiver.

Haven’t Been Caught Yet?

Then you’ve been lucky.It’s now become common practice for U.S. immigration officers to ask for identification for the purpose of conducting an RCMP computer criminal record search.

Voice of the Investigator

Privacy and Canadian Investigations

Privacy is an issue that is becoming front and center in many different areas not least of which is private investigations.  Although there are certain lengths that investigators can legally go to collect information on individuals, it should be noted that conduct and method is governed not only by privacy legislation, but the Criminal code of Canada as well.

Police Checks (CPIC) versus Vulnerable Sector Searches (VSS)

Police Checks and Vulnerable Sector checks aren’t for criminals, they’re for everyday people.  Companies want to know who they’re hiring, to safeguard their business.  But police checks aren’t just for employment reasons, they’re also for citizenship and visa applicants, adoption applicants, security guard licenses and medical marijuana producer licenses. Vulnerable Sector Checks are done for those wishing to work with those who are more vulnerable than ourselves, like the elderly, the disabled and our children.

RCMP No Longer Accepts Ink Prints

As of July 1^st, 2014 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) Canadian Criminal Real Time Identification Services (CCRTIS) will no longer be taking Ink prints to do Criminal Record Checks.This means that all fingerprints done for the purpose of conducting a Criminal Record Check must be done electronically.

Investigation Services

Commissionaires Great Lakes launched a comprehensive new Investigations Department in July 2014. The addition of High Performance Surveillance capability, as well as, the ability to conduct Specialty Searches for clients, has taken us to the next level.

Commissionaires Great Lakes offers a wide range of Investigation Services for both business and personal needs. We have a broad range of Investigations Services under such specializations as Interviewing and Statement Taking, Field Operations & Surveillance, Specialty Investigations& various other types of investigations.