Originally Posted by
High Average
I left the RAF last year and for the last 20 years of my time I was DV cleared. I obtained a job with a civilian company which had contracts with various Government agencies for which I needed my DV to be resurrected as well as some other checks which one of the agencies required. After 6 months of waiting for the clearances to come through I had to get a job elsewhere due to financial pressures, so my original job had to be knocked on the head. Had the clearances come through in a reasonable time then I wouldn't be in my current job. I have a lot of sympathy with the original civilian company as they couldn't get me started until the clearances and other checks came through, so they are back at stage one and have to recruit somebody else and again wait for the clearance process to give them the green light
Absurd. What are the chances of a person with continuous DV over a long period suddenly becoming a bad bet? Many of the old PV DV fail aspects have almost become societal norms. Sleeper baddies being resurrected is more or less the stuff of spy fiction. Why not treat cases such as above with some sense, and put the new recruit in a less sensitive post until the clearance wanders through?
The system is BLXd anyway: I was once asked to subscribe to the vetting of one of mine who, I reported, was devious, untrustworthy, selfish, indulged in prostitutes and exchanged hard core. Yet he/she/it got the job. I half expected to be vetted again as it was clear that I had suddenly become a liar.