Ottawa Police Service Budget swallowed by Background Checks

The Ottawa Sun reports that the Otttaw Police service is spending alot of their overtime budget on conducting background checks for volunteer organizations like the Ottawa Administrators of Volunteer Resources, Volunteer Ottawa and the city’s volunteer services. Each group wants the government to speed up the background check process.

The police force is expecting to be swamped with background checks in 2008 because of volunteer-needy events, such as the Ontario Summer Games and World Junior Hockey Championships.

One solution is the privatize these volunteer background checks for the Canadian civil service. A private provide of volunteer background checks or volunteer screening would speed up the process and reduce costs to the government organizations. For example, Los Angeles Based Corra Employment Screening offering Canadian Criminal Background Checks as well and Education and Employment verifications in each Canadian Province.