Taxi Driver Online

scare la mouche!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There has been much on the news about the Governments failure to enter UK citizens, foreign convictions into the criminal records database; but what about non-UK nationals who come here from other EU countries & decide to seek employment as taxi drivers ?

If, for example, an Polish national with convictions for sexual offences in his homeland applied for a taxi drivers licence here in the UK there would, quite rightly, be background checks to ensure he was no danger to the travelling public

My query is, would those offences carried out show up in any Police checks ?

MUST SAY THIS GMB BRANCH SEC SEEMS EXTREMELY KNOWLEDGEABLE

Well GMB.

All I can do is evaluate the evidence in front of me. And after 25 years I follow my hunches.

There is no 'uneven' playing field. The Poles, when recruited lived in Poland and had never lived in the UK. It was my suggestion to get the Polish check done. If we had submitted a check to CRB they would have returned a completed certificate within weeks (the CRB told me this) because nothing would be found.

Next year they will have to have a CRB in this country. That will show one year's history. The CRB won't go any further back. So which would be safest?

Let me state this one last time, I am confident that the Polish good conduct certificate is equal in its merit to a CRB checkin the UK. If you saw the process in Poland you might agree as well.

By my reckoning you were an unlicensed driver for about 8 years. By the argument you are now using I can assume that you believe you were a risk to the public?

What this industry needs is quality, stable, career drivers. I started four Poles nearly five months ago on the evening shift and they are all still with me, as reliable as a rolex.

The four English drivers I managed to recruit before them lasted a total of 27 evenings between the lot of them. Their recruitment and training cost me a fortune. I knew they were unsuitable when I took them on but I thought I had no choice.

I now know I have a choice and next time I am recruiting I will advertise in the UK and Poland. And I will choose the best candidates.

Thought he was dead.

See other threads, like "Certificate of good conduct" for more.

Some of those EU countries will sell you anything for a goat and a bag of nuts

If they cannot provide the same information as someone who is indigenous to this country,then they should not be licenced....it makes a mockery of the whole thing..