Who is the source of criminal check data in Denmark?
Rigspolitiet Juridisk Afdeling Kriminal registeret
What is the process in Denmark?
The requesting party will request the check from the ATS or their Zinc account.
- Automated instructions are delivered to provide some personal details in a dynamic web form
- Zinc submits the request to the authorities
- Zinc receives the results (digitally) and provides a signed digital report
- The candidate receives a text to say the process is complete.
What details are required from the candidate to submit the check?
- First Name
- Last Name
- Birth Date
- Specific Application Form (Wet and digital signatures are acceptable.
- Passport/ID Copy*
- Consent
* For Danish citizens: official valid ID document (Passport/ID Card/ Danish Driving License where Danish Personal Number is visible;
For Foreigners: Passport/ID Card/ Driving License/ Residence permit / USA Driving License is acceptable as long as there is the full name, date, and place of birth of the subject. In the lack of a place of birth mentioned, a copy of the birth certificate is required.
Note¹: A temporary Danish Driver's license can be used if it is valid, has a photo of the person, and states their place of birth, then the authority can accept it. Otherwise, it will need to be accompanied by further documents.
Note²: Expired copy of a document can be accepted also if another copy of proof of identity with a photo on it is presented (no foreign residence card such as the USA is accepted).
Note³: As an exception, a copy of the Birth Certificate instead of the passport or ID copy but send an additional official document that shows the handwritten signature of the individual such as a copy of the Driving License. They must compare the signature from an official document to the signature from the application form.
What is covered in the criminal check?
The Private Criminal Record (Privat Straffeattest)– 3 types of certificates issued by the
RIGSPOLITIET (Danish National Police Legal Department Criminal Registry), has nationwide
coverage, including citizens and foreigners of any age.
This Private Criminal Record (Privat Straffeattest) is subject to the candidate’s explicit consent
and the Specific Application Form is performed through an authority database. The RIGSPOLITIET (Danish National Police Legal Department Criminal Registry) reserves the right to issue or reject the issuance of the certificate after careful assessment and scrutiny of the nature of the request. The Private Criminal Record (Privat Straffeattest) does not have aspecific validity and is issued in Danish and can be requested in English as well.
The Private Criminal Record (Privat Straffeattest) contains information for all the following criminal convictions or offences, except those deleted by rehabilitation laws or considered spent:
- Offences against the constitution (e.g., electoral offences, corruption, trespass, etc.)
- Misuse of public force
- Offences committed by public servants
- Offences against the public interest
- Offences against the private interest
- Offences against the public authority, influence, and fraud, perversion of justice, refusal to assist justice
- Disobedience to judicial orders
- Obstruction of public service
- Offences against state guarantees
- Usurpation
- Guarantee of the national economy
- Felonies and misdemeanours against the general interest (e.g., public safety, offences against the public peace, public economy, public health, public decency; public worship)
- Felonies and misdemeanours against the private interest (e.g., killing, harm, intentional force, private liberty, sexual offences, personal tranquility, confidence, property, insolvency, children, and family)
- Simple offences
The legal prescription of a sentence varies, depending on the type of offence committed and the sentence pronounced.
What is the expected turnaround time?
Period covered by the check:
N/A
Privacy statement:
The details contained in this report should not be used as the sole reason for making a decision. Zinc Work Ltd is not liable for any inaccuracies or incompleteness in the information appearing in this report since it is provided to Zinc Work Ltd by third parties. This report has been produced for the purchaser of the report and Zinc Work Ltd will have no liability to loss.
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