Criminal records checks for engineers

Designing burglar alarms and installing burglar alarms are very different jobs.

Many burglar alarm installation companies DBS check their staff (despite no legal requirements to do so) because it's a customer facing job and it's a selling point for the company.

One local burglar alarm installation company is run by a former police officer, with no technical knowledge. Somehow he manages to insist that all staff are enhanced DBS checked, and he imposes a zero tolerance policy for any criminal convictions, including spent convictions for minor trivial misdemeanors which took place back in the 1980s. It's also of note that he imposes the following conditions for employees - although he doesn't explicitly state it:

1 They must not have a degree in any subject.

2 They must be married at the time they take up employment.

3 They must submit details from their credit file every 6 months.

4 They must drink alcohol and be a social drinker, but not a drunkard.

5 They must not have any close relatives or in-laws from certain countries - the list of countries is kept secret but it has been found to include Russia, Pakistan, Iraq, and Nigeria although India and Poland seem OK.

6 Preferably a homeowner.

As the design and development of burglar alarms mostly takes place behind closed doors and is not generally a customer facing job then there should not be any requirements for companies to DBS check engineers. 

Designing burglar alarms and installing burglar alarms are very different jobs.

Many burglar alarm installation companies DBS check their staff (despite no legal requirements to do so) because it's a customer facing job and it's a selling point for the company.

One local burglar alarm installation company is run by a former police officer, with no technical knowledge. Somehow he manages to insist that all staff are enhanced DBS checked, and he imposes a zero tolerance policy for any criminal convictions, including spent convictions for minor trivial misdemeanors which took place back in the 1980s. It's also of note that he imposes the following conditions for employees - although he doesn't explicitly state it:

1 They must not have a degree in any subject.

2 They must be married at the time they take up employment.

3 They must submit details from their credit file every 6 months.

4 They must drink alcohol and be a social drinker, but not a drunkard.

5 They must not have any close relatives or in-laws from certain countries - the list of countries is kept secret but it has been found to include Russia, Pakistan, Iraq, and Nigeria although India and Poland seem OK.

6 Preferably a homeowner.

As the design and development of burglar alarms mostly takes place behind closed doors and is not generally a customer facing job then there should not be any requirements for companies to DBS check engineers.