Doorstep Collectors and CRB checks

[setmefree]

Are all DCA doorstep collectors CRB checked???

 

I believe they all should be,after all you may have an ex con or even worse someone who is on the sex offenders register:mad:.

[diskmandave]

The debt collection industry is virtually if not totally unregulated.

 

There are those that claim to abide by the credit services association' code of conduct, but that's nothing more than an old boys club for the credit industry.

[ThisVeryMoment]

"you may have an ex con or even worse someone who is on the sex offenders register".

 

Maybe creditors should check those out requesting credit? I mean the applicant may be an ex con or someone who is on the sex offenders register! We certainly don't wan't those types borrowing money! It's bad enough as it is.

[spamheed]

At the moment CRB checks are only obligatory when working with the young, old/infirm or disadvantaged.

 

A lot of employers are now taking the view, "better to have and not need a CRB, than need and not have".

 

I would agree that someone who is employed to visit people in their homes should be vetted, although I do believe that licenced bailiffs have to have a CRB before being a licence being granted. This is obviously not the same for the unregulated part time pizza delivery boys who normally do the doorstepping for these companies

[ThisVeryMoment]

Doorstep Agents are not "employed to visit people in their homes". They knock on the door just like salesmen, charity collectors, jehova witnesses etc. They are not regulated, so why shout doorstep agents be?

[babybear39]

At the moment CRB checks are only obligatory when working with the young, old/infirm or disadvantaged.

 

 

At least 50% of alledged debtors would fall into this catergory, so surely CRB checks should be compulsory for such 'field agents'

[Seahorse]

The doorstep collector's problems would start when visiting someone with a record of psychotic behaviour involving a baseball bat.

 

Or so I would like to think.

[Newborn]

Surely they do have a CRB check - to make sure they do have a record!

 

Newborn

[ThisVeryMoment]

The key statement is, "when working with the young, old/infirm or disadvantaged". Doorstep Agents are not 'working with' anyone. They are calling to collect money of those refusing to make payments. a VERY different thing!

 

What rubbish is often spouted here!

[spamheed]

I would have thought an integrity check would be more appropriate.

[renegotiation]

Surely they do have a CRB check - to make sure they do have a record!

 

Newborn

 

 

Ha ha. You beat me to it! And it's probably true too. Boy George look alikes need not apply. LMFAO.