Originally Posted by
teeteringhead
A touch unfair Chevvers. It's more like 6-8 weeks in my neck of the woods, 10 if you're very unlucky.
And the DBS (as we are reminded below it is now called!) is only required for "regular unsupervised access" so a temporary visitor could be "chaperoned" - and of course now that 18+ cadets must be DBS'd, those cadets could be the chaperone (or chaperon).
Well I am talking about 20 years ago before my Wg Cdr decided not to renew my 'tour' when I was only 51.
The system worked though. We had an ex RAF guy apply to join my squadron as a CI so sent off the forms. It was about 6 months before we got a short note from the Wg Ad O saying we were not to recruit him. We asked why, but Wg Ad O wouldn't tell us either by letter or on the phone.
Turns out this applicant had a 'record' whilst in the RAF of paedophile activites; we don't know if he was convicted or even charged, but it was enough for him to be excluded.