Has anyone ever filled out a counter terrorism check before?

GhostlyPea · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:32

Mine took about 4 weeks to come back, passed ofc

-GP

sniffy · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:44

Good point. Was it common for them to be rumbled in that fashion though? If it was rare I'd probably still risk it. I'm such a rebel.

Castiel · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:46

Kristoph said:
Quite an in-depth form as you'd imagine. Some odd questions that I guess need to be asked, e.g. Have you ever been involved in espionage? Overthrowing a government?!

Anyway, has anyone here filled one out? How long did it take to come back?

Yeah..it took about a month.

Nitefly · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:48

sniffy said:
Good point. Was it common for them to be rumbled in that fashion though? If it was rare I'd probably still risk it. I'm such a rebel.

The have a system in place that meticulously checks evey German to see if they are telling porkies..... which begs the question of why ask in the first place

Dunks · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:49

arctine said:
As for being DV'd, I thought half of the stuff they asked me was funny. Unfortunately the vetters aren't allowed to have a sense of humour which made it quite awkward.

It's pretty personal I hear

arctine · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:50

Dunks said:
It's pretty personal I hear

I'm sure you can imagine the manner of questions that I found amusing.

Dunks · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:52

arctine said:
I'm sure you can imagine the manner of questions that I found amusing.

I've been told of a select few

sniffy · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:53

Nitefly said:
The have a system in place that meticulously checks evey German to see if they are telling porkies.

Interesting.

which begs the question of why ask in the first place

Probably to catch out people like me that think they could get around the system and give them the boot straight away

Nitefly · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:53

sniffy said:
Interesting.

Probably to catch out people like me that think they could get around the system and give them the boot straight away

I made it up

sniffy · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:54

Why would someone on the Internet lie?

Nitefly · 26 Jan 2012 at 23:56

sniffy said:
Why would someone on the Internet lie?

For clearly failed attempts at humour

JayMax · 27 Jan 2012 at 00:20

CTC should be very straightforward, "expected times" are BPSS 4 weeks, 6 weeks for SC and 3 months for DV. But there does appear to be delays in their system at present from my recent experience, but that's not dealing with CTC.

Meridian · 27 Jan 2012 at 07:15

Nitefly said:
I always thought it was amusing that when you enter the USA, there is a question on a form that pretty much exactly reads like this:

"Have you ever been a member of or a member of a group affiliated with the Nazi party of Germany circa 1939-1945?"

I mean really, who ticks yes?!

The pope?

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Participant · 27 Jan 2012 at 07:40

Rroff said:
Can't tell you what the job was

Supercar tester at the MoD?

wordy · 27 Jan 2012 at 08:45

Went through the Developed Vetting procedure for a posting when I was in the forces, took a couple of months had family & friends interviewed by MoD staff.

Gilly · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:27

I'm surprised at these lead times.

CTC does usually take around 4-6 weeks, but I've never known SC be less than 6 months :/

[edit]Though, I suppose, the vast majority is renewals.

sbi5ar · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:39

Mine took about a month or two...

To fill in... then a month or two to get back to me. Some of the questions were quite strange and almost pointless because if you answered yes your application would prob go straight in the bin :/

Didn't get the job in the end either

wordy · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:51

Are you allowed to say what it's for OP?

bakes0310 · 27 Jan 2012 at 09:54

No i havent, its probably because im British and white.

Gilly · 27 Jan 2012 at 10:10

bakes0310 said:
No i havent, its probably because im British and white.

I doubt it.

I always thought you were of a brown persuasion anyway.