For those of you applying for jobs, or going through vetting this from the BBC at :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3630971.stm
may be in interest - or concern!
"Nearly 200 people have been wrongly accused by the Criminal Records Bureau of having criminal records.
The names of 193 people were mistakenly linked with convictions held on the police national computer (PNC), BBC Radio Five Live has learned.
In some cases the names of those being vetted by the bureau were similar or identical to those of actual criminals.
In others, the criminals had given someone else's personal details to the authorities to avoid a police record. "