Sweden Criminal Record Check Process and Requirements

### Who is the source of criminal check data in Sweden? National Police ### What is the process in Sweden? - The requesting party will request the check from the ATS or their Zinc account. - Automated instructions are delivered to the candidate to provide some personal details in a dynamic web form and provide a completed specific application form that has been signed with a pen. - Zinc submits the request to the authorities via our checking provider. - Zinc receives the results (digitally) and provides a signed digital report for you to review. - The candidate receives a notification to say the process is complete. - **Only if records are found**, a certificate is sent to the candidate directly. ### What details are required from the candidate to submit the check? - First Name - Last Name - Birth Date - Consent - **Specific Application Form**: Filled in where required and **hand signed with a pen and do not choose the multilingual option** - **Current Address**: the full current address of the candidate (in Sweden or abroad) The form is available for the candidate to download a copy, fill in, and upload it back to Zinc within their criminal check request with Zinc. ### What is covered in the criminal check? The copy of the Criminal Register Extract (Registerutdrag) issued by the Swedish Police Authority has nationwide coverage, including citizens and foreigners over 18 years of age. The certificate issuance is subject to the candidate’s explicit consent and is intended to serve the particular purpose (to assert rights in a foreign country and the specific application form we use is for this specific purpose.) indicated during the application process. The Swedish Police Authority reserves the right to issue or reject the issuance of the certificate after careful assessment and scrutiny of the nature of the request. The Certificate contains information for all of the following criminal convictions or offences, except those deleted by rehabilitation laws or considered spent: - Theft - Robbery - Blasphemy - Apostasy - Adultery, sodomy, fornication - Crimes involving bodily harm - Bribery - Trafficking, and drug abuse - Misuse of public force - Offences committed by public servants - Offences against the public interest - Offences against the private interest - Offences against the public authority, influence, and fraud, perversion of justice, refusal to assist justice - Disobedience to judicial orders - Obstruction of public service - Offences against state guarantees - Usurpation - Guarantee of the national economy - Felonies and misdemeanours against the general interest (e.g., public safety, offences against the public peace, public economy, public health, public decency; public worship) - Felonies and misdemeanours against the private interest (e.g., killing, harm, intentional force, private liberty, sexual offences, personal tranquility, confidence, property, insolvency, children, and family) - Simple offences - Violations of Public Decorum including traffic violations (speeding, running traffic lights, following too closely, drink driving, etc.) The legal prescription of a sentence varies, depending on the type of offence committed and the sentence pronounced. ### Restrictions, Exclusions, Limitations: - Sweden is part of the EU. **ECRIS** is applicable; however, if there is a record found from ECRIS, **Zinc** will **not** be reporting it, as it does not belong to Sweden. If the candidate is not a citizen of the EU or the UK, the check will follow the same process but without the ECRIS being included. - The service only covers employment to be asserted in a foreign country and the specific application form we use is for this specific purpose. - Very rarely will the invoice or extract not be shared with their parties (including Zinc) by the authority. This might be due to the individual's identity being protected as mandated by the authorities. The extract will only be sent to the Skatteverket/Swedish Tax Agency, which is responsible for forwarding it to the applicant. Alternatively, the applicant can collect it directly from the authority. In this case, the candidate should directly contact the authority as further information will not be shared with third parties. - **There will be slight delays in case the authority conducts the **ECRIS** process with EU Member states.** ### What is the expected turnaround time? [Here](https://zincwork.com/turnaround-times/criminal). ### Period covered by the check: Until legal rehabilitation occurs. The law regarding how long information is stored in the Swedish criminal record depends on the sentence given and varies between 3 and 20 years depending on the offence committed. The maximum prescription or sentence to be held in the Swedish criminal record system is 20 years. If there is more than one criminal record for an individual, all information will remain visible until all the convictions are considered “spent”. ### Privacy statement: The details contained in this report should not be used as the sole reason for making a decision. Zinc Work Ltd is not liable for any inaccuracies or incompleteness in the information appearing in this report since it is provided to Zinc Work Ltd by third parties. This report has been produced for the purchaser of the report and Zinc Work Ltd will have no liability to loss.