Background????

[Mueller89]

Hello I am going through a background right now and also getting ready to go into a second one with another agency. Is do background have a program they use online that all agency's use? So they can see what the other agency background found to speed up the process? (The old agency doesn't know about the second background)

[retdetsgt]

No. Other than criminal history and credit checks, the rest is done the old fashioned way. Telephone and letters.

But after stealing a grand from your employer, I wouldn't say your prospects are great.

[Mueller89]

Wow ok.. i thought with technology theses days you would think it would be all online.

[Kimble]

Wow ok.. i thought with technology theses days you would think it would be all online.

Regardless of technology, no police investigation (criminal, background, etc.) is done "all online." Hard to tell if someone is lying to you when all you're doing is checking online databases and doing Google searches.

[Mueller89]

thats not what i was saying. like a program that the investigator puts info in as he goes along.. not like a google search.

[Kimble]

thats not what i was saying. like a program that the investigator puts info in as he goes along.. not like a google search.

I understood perfectly well what you were saying. The responses you got are still just as valid.

[retdetsgt]

They probably have a local data base, but not anything others can look at. It's just a storage thing, like a document file. Putting that kind of info on the Internet is too risky for everyone involved.

[Mueller89]

So the other agencys can look at it?

[GoDirectly2Jail]

So the other agencys can look at it?

Agencies look at other department background investigations all the time.

[retdetsgt]

So the other agencys can look at it?

Agencies were looking at other's BI's long before computers were invented.

That being said, that doesn't mean they'll use anything to speed up the process. Mostly they look for bad things the other found. There is a justifiable fear of hiring a bad apple so agencies conduct their own investigations no matter what anyone else did. So taking short cuts is not part of it.