DEAR Editor – Every three or four years a taxi driver has to renew his or her licence – part of that process is a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
If a teacher changes schools, again a DBS check is initiated just like in many other professions.
A comprehensive, screening, vetting and background check is carried out prior to a police officer taking the oath.
In light of the awful Sarah Everard murder by a serving police officer, is it time that regular, periodic enhanced DBS checks are introduced into police forces as standard?
Cliff Slade
Tenbury Wells
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