Police vetting level 2 help

[Catlover1986]

Hi there,

Ive been in my current role for 4 years, and my vetting is up for renewal. They adviced as opppsed to a level 1.5 vetting it will be a level 2 abbrev. For everyone. I work i a non-police staff role.

20 years ago, when i was young and carefree, i hit a parked car and drove off. Dont know why, just did.

Cut a long story short i ended up going to court and receiving 2 driving convictions - failure to report an accident and driving without due care and attention. 3 points and a fine.

I think these convictions are now spent and protected. For the first vetting i didnt declare them, after checking with the vetting unit they advised i didnt have to. Ive checked again with the vetting team and have an email trail to say i dont need to declare them.

Every time some sort of checks need doing i get nervous. What if i fail this time because of what happened 20 years ago?
A member of our team failed as he declared on the vetting form he had not paid for a meal in a restaurant 10 years ago, got instantly rejected.

Any advice, not sure if im worrying unnecessarily?
Thank you

If you’ve checked & they’ve said not then presumably it’s nothing to declare & nothing to worry about

Came to empathise. I’m waiting for NPPV3 and so worried I won’t pass and won’t keep my job
my worries are 2 defaults in 2022 and if a relative I don’t know about has a criminal record

@Catlover1986 thing is you have declared them, ie you've made the vetting team aware of the incidents. If they've said not to include them on the form as they're spent, and you have this in writing, you'll be fine.
I always advise my team to declare everything, as you're more likely to be refused vetting if you've tried to hide something (as it suggests dishonesty, which is the big red flag for vetting!) than for minor offences decades ago.

I can also be 99% sure that declaring you'd not paid for a meal would not be a reason to be refused vetting, especially at NPPV 1- there will have been something else that your colleague understandably didn't want to share, or equally didn't know (eg. his brother was a member of a known criminal gang that he wasn't aware of).