Level 2 - Police Information Check

The name-based Police Information Check will only include the following information as it exists on the date of the search:

• Confirmation of declared criminal convictions;
• Summary convictions;
• Convictions under appeal;
• Suspended sentences;
• Findings of Guilt under the Youth Criminal Justice Act within the applicable disclosure period;
• Other Federal convictions (if a public safety concern exists);
• Provincial convictions (if a public safety concern exists);
• Absolute Discharges and Conditional Discharges within the applicable disclosure period
  • Not a conviction, listed as ‘subject’; and
• Outstanding and/or pending entries such as Charges and Warrants;
• Judicial Orders include Peace Bonds, Restraining Orders, Protection Orders, Probation Orders, and Prohibition Orders.
  
  

A certified Criminal Record Check (verified by fingerprints) will also include an RCMP National Repository of Criminal Records search.

The Police Information Check does not include many sources of information that might be available to police, including but not limited to: 

• Record suspension (pardoned) criminal convictions;
• Expired Peace Bonds.
• Findings of guilt with reprimand or charges withdrawn (youth only).
• Extrajudicial Measures such as Diversions to Alternative Measures, Community Justice Committees or similar programs.
• Dispositions including, but not limited to Withdrawn, Dismissed, Acquittal, Not Guilty, Stay of Proceedings, and cases of Not Criminally Responsible.
• Police records query of criminal/federal offences where the applicant is categorized as the Accused, Suspect, Suspect Chargeable, Charges Recommended, or Arrested information.
• Any additional information recorded in police databases documenting the applicant to have been a suspect in an offence (whether or not charged).
• Police records query where the applicant is categorized as the Victim, Witness, Subject of Complaint or Complainant.
• Adverse contact involving the threat or actual use of violence directed at other individuals, regardless of, but without disclosing mental health status;
• Mental health information
• Police intelligence information,
• Driver’s Licence Records, and
• Foreign law enforcement information
  
  

NOTE: This is a general list of records that may or may not be included in a records check. This list and the accompanying notes are provided as a guideline only. It is not comprehensive or exhaustive, and it may be varied or amended to meet the needs of a particular records check.