The arresting police as well as the RCMP may deny an application if: an applicant has an outstanding criminal charge before the courts The retention period has not expired There are multiple non- convictions for very serious/recent charges. Please note that the police have full discretion whether they grant a file destruction or not. Different detachments have different policies.
A file destruction is needed when an individual was charged, fingerprinted and/or attended criminal court, but was NOT convicted. A destruction refers to the destruction of local and federal records.
If you are currently not living in Canada, you are still required to complete the LPC for Canadian addresses. You can either submit it yourself or have your Canadian contact submit it on your behalf. If your Canadian contact is submitting it for you, please contact the local police to find out what is required. You will typically have to
There are a number of reasons why you may have to redo your LPC. The most common ones are: missing or incorrect information on the form or the LPC has become expired (it is only valid for 1 year).
As per the Parole Board of Canada, you are required to do an LPC for each city or town where you have lived for 3 months or more in the past 5 years.
Pardons Canada will mail you detailed instructions on how to complete it and where it should be submitted. If you are doing an LPC for a city/town other than the one you are currently residing in, we will send you the contact information for that police jurisdiction. You will need to call them to obtain submission instructions.
As per the Parole Board of Canada guidelines, an LPC is required to determine that you have not been involved in any criminal activities in the area(s) that you have lived in the past 5 years. It may also disclose other non-criminal offences.
An LPC is a Local Police Records Check (LPC) that is required by the Parole Board of Canada to determine you have not been involved in any criminal activities in the area(s) that you lived in the last 5 years. It may also disclose other non-criminal offences. The LPC is a local level check where the RCMP report is on
If you have received the RCMP report at home, please mail the original to Pardons Canada by Xpress Post or registered mail. We do not want this document lost, as it is a vital part of Pardon and Waiver applications.
Once we have received your RCMP report we will be moving your application forward to the next step. If we have any questions in regards to your fingerprints and RCMP report, we will contact you for the required information.
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