What is the extent of the background investigation to be completed by the County Sheriffs Office?
Answer 3. Each applicant for a “Certificate of Qualification” is required to provide certain information, which is essential to a complete background investigation. Your name (and past names), date of birth, and other identifiers will be hand-checked through your County Sheriffs Office outstanding warrant and civil document files, jail files, offense reports, mental commitments, civil documents, and calls-for-service history records completely. Checking each individual will require about two hours of time on an average, just for our local records check and documentation. Following the local record check, the Sheriff will access state and national computer data files from agencies such as the Highway Patrol and FBI. If a “hit” occurs, (such as an incomplete arrest or court record), Sheriffs employees will contact the agency in question and investigate further the reason for the record in the other location or locations. Concurrent with our local record checks, your fingerprint cards (ta
