Originally Posted by
Wrathmonk
What happened to individuals, who whilst undergoing additional vetting, told their vetting officer they were gay? Was this one of the occasions when the “catholic confessional” clause was broken and the vetting officer reported, in clear, the reasons or did they just fail their vetting, with no reason given, and the individual was posted to less sensitive duties?
When I first went through DV before joining up I was told by the ex-copper doing my interview that in the bad old days they used that as a final filter. That people who admitted to being gay then found themselves failing to gain the clearance and subsequently couldn't serve.