Criminal records (ordinary) assistance and validation (SAR)

This check provides what is referred to as Ordinary Certificate or Ordinær. A criminal record certificate shows what has been recorded about an individual in police registers. In Norway, the Criminal Record Certificate can be requested only by the individual and not by a third party (Subject Access Request). We'll guide and assist the individual in making a Subject Access Request (SAR) for the certificate and then validate it. In Norway, there are five types of criminal record certificates: Ordinary (Ordinær): available for roles in the financial services industry, railway companies and airlines. Limited (Begrenset): available for roles in pharmacies, pharmaceuticals, health and social care services and the post. Exhaustive (Uttømmende): available for airside roles in airports Exhaustive and extended (Uttømmende og utvidet): available for security-related roles such as security guards, installers of alarm systems, infosec and those working and managing security businesses. Childcare Certificate (Barneomsorgsattest): available for roles involved children including healthcare, social services, education and more but also to roles involved vulnerable adults such as volunteering organisations, health and social care related to handicapped persons, asylum seekers, and victims of rape. An ordinary criminal record certificate lists any criminal convictions and related sentences the individual has received within a given period of time. The ordinary criminal record certificate shows: • If the individual has been sentenced to prison for a period of six months or less and the sentence was handed down three years or less before the certificate was issued. • If the individual has been sentenced to prison for a period of more than six months and they were released less than ten years before the certificate was issued. • If the individual has been given a suspended prison sentence and the sentence was handed down three years or less before the certificate was issued. • If the individual has been sentenced to indefinite or preventive detention and they were released from prison less than ten years before the certificate was issued. • If the individual has been given a community sentence or sentenced to community service, where the underlying prison sentence was six months or less in duration and the sentence was handed down three years or less before the certificate was issued. • If the individual has been given a community sentence or sentenced to community service, where the underlying prison sentence was more than six months and the community sentence was completed less than ten years before the certificate was issued. • If the individual has been given a youth sentence and the sentence was handed down three years or less before the certificate was issued. • If the individual has been given a fine for a criminal offence carrying a maximum prison sentence of more than six months. This information will remain on their record for three years from the date on which they accepted the fine. • If the individual has been committed to compulsory psychiatric care, compulsory care or preventive detention and the committal period came to an end less than ten years before the certificate was issued. • If the individual has been sentenced to a loss of rights for a fixed period of time and the sentence came to an end less than ten years before the certificate was issued. • If the individual has been sentenced to a permanent loss of rights. This information will always be shown. The criminal record certificate does not show: • If the individual has been given a suspended prison sentence and the sentence is not yet legally enforceable (in other words, it may still be appealed). • If the individual has been given a fine for a criminal offence carrying a maximum prison sentence of six months or less. • If the individual has been given a fixed penalty notice. • If the prosecution authorities have decided not to prosecute the individual (waived prosecution in their case). • If a case in which the individual is involved is transferred to the Norwegian Mediation Service for resolution. • If the individual has been transferred into the care of the child welfare authorities. • If the individual has had their driving licence confiscated, for example. • The results of any court-ordered psychiatric assessment or social inquiry report. If the individual has repeatedly been found guilty of serious criminal offences for which they have been sentenced to: • imprisonment for terms of six months or more • preventive detention • definite detention • committal to compulsory psychiatric care or compulsory care all their convictions will be included in the criminal record certificate, even if only one of them must be included under the ten-year disclosure rule. This rule normally excludes convictions handed down more than ten years before. Loss of rights includes, for example, a ban on being employed in a certain kind of job or engaging in a certain kind of business or activity. It may also include a ban on contacting one or more specific people. Two exceptions for young offenders Did the individual commit a criminal offence before their 18th birthday? The following will not be included in the criminal record certificate: • If the individual has been given a suspended prison sentence or fine and the criminal offence took place more than two years before the certificate was issued. • If the individual has given a community sentence, where the underlying sentence is more than six months in prison or a youth sentence and the offence took place more than five years before the certificate was issued.