In the UK they have no authority to make criminal record checks except in very specific circumstances. You can't just do a criminal record check on anybody you please.

Peanuts. HR of many companies do just that day and night. Checking candidate's name against dabases of pedofiles (which are public), whatever else there is available to check, trawl social media. When applying for a job you give them your acknowledgement.

What could be new in Thai now is just that tell you they are (or may be) doing that and you are aware. Everyone has been photographed at border crossing. Face recogition software these days can dig you out from whatever anonymous (as this one) Forum they want.

Of course, sporting a new tatoo or being a breeder of pitbulls won't stop visa extension but something else might.

In the UK only the person can get their Full Criminal Conviction Police Report, there are more crimes than pedos! This the person takes to their employers or Immigration. The only way to get a full report.

I guess in most European countries with their privacy protection laws the Thai police will have no access even with this waiver. The police would need to prove that they themselves have a bonafide criminal investigation going on and require such background information for the case. To successfully retrieve foreign governmental information the Thai police would need to sendvtheir request thru diplomatic channels and the proper embassy to make the local request.

Not sure about that

http://www.interpol.int/Member-countries/Asia-South-Pacific/Thailand

In the UK they have no authority to make criminal record checks except in very specific circumstances. You can't just do a criminal record check on anybody you please.

Quite. But the UK is a First World country not under a military dictatorship.

BTW I knew a young Thai guy who had to have a police check written up to present to UK immigration to enable him to join his British wife and settle there. He'd said he'd had to pay the Thai police to 'leave out some information'. And so will everyone else.

I guess in most European countries with their privacy protection laws the Thai police will have no access even with this waiver. The police would need to prove that they themselves have a bonafide criminal investigation going on and require such background information for the case. To successfully retrieve foreign governmental information the Thai police would need to sendvtheir request thru diplomatic channels and the proper embassy to make the local request.

Not sure about that

http://www.interpol.int/Member-countries/Asia-South-Pacific/Thailand

there would be a criminal investigation of an actual unsolved crime that gets interpol involved, they are only a information disemination platform. requesting information on a citizens potential criminal background at home is not covered.

There was a mention on the overstay sheet and need to sign before the application process could commence regarding this topic.

Last 2 lines stated conviction and then the next said said something or the other of, if overstay due to being in jail here and then covered giving permission to look.. Quite vague, but almost as good as the form stated above. I as the other op, I read it really quick and was just in thought of getting through the meeting.

Does anyone have a copy of this document so we can read and review?

There was a mention on the overstay sheet and need to sign before the application process could commence regarding this topic.

Last 2 lines stated conviction and then the next said said something or the other of, if overstay due to being in jail here and then covered giving permission to look.. Quite vague, but almost as good as the form stated above. I as the other op, I read it really quick and was just in thought of getting through the meeting.

Does anyone have a copy of this document so we can read and review?

I would also like to see a copy.