Proof of no convictions in Ireland

mel.b · 14-11-2018 8:38pm

jasonhptan wrote: »

Hi guys,

I wonder if there are any further updates regarding this. I recently have been offered a job and require the police certificate. I have submitted a request to the local superintendent and was returned with a reply that they do not give out these certificates for UK or EU and referred to complete the F20 form. Any latest updates regarding this? Thanks

Hi Jason

My employer in Australia would not accept the form you get back from the F20 application. It clearly says on that it is not police cleareance (or words to that affect). I ended up going to the garda station and just begging basically, explaining the situation. Luckily i got a sympathic sargent who spoke to the superintendent for me and got it done.

KatPilar · 07-09-2019 5:08pm

Absolute joke, you can't get an easy proper police clearance in Ireland to work abroad, despite so many Irish living and working abroad. This is just crazy, I sent on the useless paper I got from the garda vetting office and hope it will be sufficient, but highly doubt it given they write in bold letters that this cannot be used as police clearance. And clearly people have had this issue for the last 10 years and AGS is just ignoring it.

Spanish Eyes · 07-09-2019 5:24pm

I think if I were pushed around like this with no information and incomplete clearance, I would write to Drew Harris and copy the Minister for Justice.

Then the Ombudsman (can't be done until all other avenues have been exhausted)

It sounds very inept to me and could clearly affect an Irish citizen's right to work in sensitive fields abroad where evidence of no previous convictions is required from the applicant.

Sir montygom · 09-06-2021 9:17am

I need this now and it still seems like a big rigmarole to get it....

Thinking of emailing the court house and garda station and asking for a copy of my criminal record....they will reply with something like......'we don't have any'
That will have to do:D

iceage · 06-10-2021 4:11pm

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/moving_abroad/leaving_ireland/police_certificate.html

Might help.

halfpastneverr · 05-07-2024 9:38pm

Sorry to bump an auld thread, but I've been offered work in the UK and need to provide proof of my no convictions. Young guard on the desk in my local station hadn't a clue so he called his sergeant out. The sergeant wasn't much better and advised me to come back with a copy of my passport & previous addresses and get a police cert. I told him the police cert is only for a visa and not employment going by the Garda site and citizens information. He then said he'd ask the superintendent's office on Monday & get back to me.

I also got in touch with the District Court in Dublin in the CCJ beside the Phoenix Park on the half chance they might know something. They said all they can provide is a certified copy of a court outcome & €15 stamp duty applies for each order provided & you need to provide details like the date your case was last in court. I've never been in trouble or in a court in my life, so this obviously is of no use to me either. They also said they can't provide anything that states I've no convictions and said it's the Gardai who stand over confirming convictions/no convictions.

Such a mess. You'd think the guards would want an easier way to deal with what I assume is a common enough request, considering the amount of Irish people working abroad.

Proof of no convictions in Ireland

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