Can't Do India Police Searches Yourself

The picture in this blog is to help background screening companies (pre-employment screening companies) make a smart decision when contracting out criminal record searches in India, where this picture was taken, and anywhere else.

A few months ago, a UK company asked me to quote on some international work.

They chose another company, citing price, "They were cheaper."

Not by much though, I looked at the record retriever's pricing.

But,  Hah!  On this record retriever's Web Page, they write:

"Our trained research teams visit local Indian police stations and examines the records themselves."

Look at the picture in this blog. It's Mumbai India. Police Clearance office. I took the picture myself.

No one, NO ONE, but office staff, searches the records.

Looking at their record filing system, I don't know how they (Mumbai, not the record retriever) even  do it!

But this USA based record retrieval company?

Ain't no way, no how.

I've been there many times.

I got to sit in their office. Talk with them. Watch them work. Ask questions.

This other retrieval company - ZILCH, NADA, NEVER.

Nobody touches their records, but Mumbai themselves.

It amazes me how pre-employment screening companies get suckered into silly deals.

Worse, yet, this information is then sold to the public and companies that need to screen their employees.

I would hope this company in the UK doesn't get a lawsuit against them for being so naive and buying from this company. 

The record retriever company should be, I don't know, ashamed of themselves for BS'ing the customer?

And maybe, actually, do the work?

That'll never happen.

Steve Brownstein, Dennis Brownstein, and Donald Schneider Make Presence In NAPBS - Nashville

Steven Brownstein, Dennis Brownstein, and Donald Schneider, a super-powerhouse of criminal record check, background screening, and sales dynamics will be in Nashville April 15th-17th at the annual NAPBS Conference.

Steven Brownstein, whose conference in 2003 and whose efforts there formed the NAPBS, has been absent for several years from the annual conference. This year is different.

"It is sort of like a home-coming for me, quips Steven Brownstein.  The NAPBS,  it has been several years since my international travels have coincided with the NAPBS annual conference. This year that I am in the USA. I wouldn't miss this conference for anything."

His brother, Dennis Brownstein, couldn't agree more, " I usually attend the NAPBS conferences wiith my sales and marketing staff. It is such a pleasure to have my brother, Steve, here. He brings to the conference a dynamic that no one else in the industry quite does."

Donald Schneider, Straightline International's newly appointed Director of USA Sales, admits to being rather awed by the immensity of the NAPBS Conference and that it is such a successful garthering of industry titans. Yet, having known Steven Brownstein, he admits that it comes as no surprise the industry had through his effort evolved into this great entity.

Schneider adds, "As a relatively new-comer to the pre-employment screening industry, I see that there are many committed members to NAPBS. I hope to be one of those committed.  It is with a matter of pride that I announce that Straightline International and our sister newspaper, The Background Investigator, will host the NAPBS Newcomer Reception."

About hosting the NAPBS Newcomer Reception, that's Brownstein through and through. Always giving a hand to the underdog. Always helping the industry and its participants to excel and succeed.

And he gives without any strings attached. That it is indeed a quality he has, a quality rarely found these days.