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National Criminal Register

Obtaining information through the ECRIS system

THE UNITED KINGDOM - OBTAINING INFORMATION
Due to the Brexit, we kindly inform you that the Office does not act as an intermediary in obtaining information from the British register in the case of applications submitted by citizens of countries other than Great Britain.
If a citizen of the United Kingdom applies to the Office for information from the Polish criminal record, the application to the British side remains unchanged - the Office submits a request to the British Central Authority for the Exchange of Criminal Records for information from his criminal record and attaches the information obtained to the information about the person provided by the Office.

 

The ECRIS (European Criminal Records Information System) was created on the basis of Council Framework Decision 2009/315/JHA of 26 February 2009 on the organisation and content of the exchange of information extracted from the criminal record between Member States.

The Information Bureau of the National Criminal Register intermediates in receiving information from foreign records through the ECRIS for nationals of the EU Member States.

In the case of a person who is a national of an EU Member State and applies for a certificate from the Polish criminal record, this Register, while issuing information, has a statutory obligation to make an inquiry about such a person to the country of which the person is a national and to attach the information received from a foreign record (in the form of a printout from the ECRIS) to the information from the Polish criminal record.

In the case of a national of an EU Member State who wishes to obtain information from a foreign record of a country other than the country of which he/she is a national, it is necessary to indicate in the request that he/she lives or has lived in the Member State to which the request is addressed.

The processing time in the case of obtaining data from foreign records is extended by the time necessary to obtain information from them. The processing time is up to 20 business days – Article 6(1)(12) of the National Criminal Register Act of 24 May 2000 (Journal of Laws of 2019, item 1158 and of 2021, item 187).

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