What is Criminal Background Check?

 

Background check refers to verifying the criminal background of an employee: Be it a senior officer, field staff or even a domestic helper like Maid, Cook, Driver etc. You should ask a certain set of questions while doing a background check. It helps to check if the person has committed any offence in the past for which a complaint was registered. Often employers do Police verification of their staff. 
This background checking has a critical part of pre-employment screening in private, public and government organisations for a long time.
Now people have started using it for their House Help also. This is because the hiring of house help is no longer through just referrals from neighbours.
We hire house help online through portals like Helper4U.in, through agencies or by just stopping someone on the road next to our house. And the House help is in close proximity of our family in our presence and often in our absence too. Many of us keep full-day or live in Helpers too. Many of these are migrants who have come from another city. So employers have now started checking out criminal records database across the country. This has become all the more important now when the hiring of live-in helpers has shot through the roof.
Verification of Background in India:
In India, this verification occurs through an all-inclusive search of the court records across all levels of courts.
District Civil Courts & Tribunals
District Court
High Courts
Magistrate Court
State Court
Supreme Court
The checks are done across various sources of information from these courts:
Why is it necessary to get the latest background checks for House Help?
In simple words, the ultimate objective behind a criminal record check or CRC from across the country is providing you and your family with a safe worker. You may think what harm can a househelp, a cook or a nanny do? Well, the list is endless: Cooks, Nannies, Maids: all can steal from their immediate environment, they can allow intruders into your home, they can threaten you, they can use your home for their personal use in your absence, they may turn violet on your family members.
So, whoever is appointed at your home, he/she should possess a clean history, should be safe enough to be close to your family members, should be safe enough for you to leave your home to, should be safe and reliable enough for you to not have to keep following around.

Getting a background check ensures that there is no past criminal record of theft or violence and the worker can be trusted enough. You can easily run a background check to make it sure.
Portals like Helper4U run through relevant databases, including civil litigation database, regulatory compliance database and criminal database and check with the candidate’s name and document id. They access the database from the State and Supreme Court public records and district magistrate. Most of the private and public agencies also verify information pertaining to litigation.
This article was originally published by Helper4U

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