Extract for employment in a school or a preschool

Forms

If you are unable to use the e-service, please use one of the forms.

Processing times

Processing requests may require up to two weeks from the date we receive a completed application to sending the extract. Processing times may vary with demand.

1. Complete the form

Employment in a school, preschool or childcare. Request a police record extract. In English (pdf, 2 MB)  - to be completed digitally and printed
Employment in a school, preschool or childcare. Request a police record extract. In English (pdf, 187 kB) - to be printed and completed by hand

Note the following:

• Send a copy of your passport or ID card.
• You may only request a record extract concerning yourself. A power of attorney for another person is not valid.

2. Send in the form

Scan or take a photo of the signed form and send it by e-mail or post to the police. Forms sent by e-mail will receive an auto-reply confirming receipt by the police of your e-mail.

E-mail: registerutdrag@polisen.se

Polismyndigheten/The Swedish Police Authority
Box 757
SE-981 27 Kiruna

3. Receive a record extract

You will receive a record extract from us by post. The extract will be sent to the address provided in the application. The police may not send extracts directly to an employer.

Standard processing time can be up to two weeks from the receipt of the completed application to the sending of the extract. Processing times may vary with demand.

We cannot prioritise or accelerate any particular request.

The following applies for the extract

You are required to present a criminal records registry extract only when you are offered an employment, a student teacher internship, or an assignment in a school, a preschool, or childcare. Never submit the criminal records extract together with your application for employment.

• The extract is valid for 1 year.
• You may retain the original. The employer may only document that the extract has been presented. No further documentation of the record check may be made.
• You may show the extract to more than one employer.

If you are going to do internship in a school and are employed by an employment agency, it is the school that has the right to request the extract, not the employment agency.

A check of the criminal record is designed to strengthen the protection of children and adolescents against sexual offences and other serious criminal offences. However, this is only part of the basis for assessing whether a person is suitable for work in schools and preschools. The fact that a person has been convicted of a crime does not mean that he or she cannot be employed.

School Law (2010:800), Sveriges Riksdag (In Swedish)

Organisations/activities subject to the record check requirement

Extracts from the criminal records must be shown for both public and private employers within the following organisations/activities:

• preschool
• preschool class
• primary school
• primary school for pupils with learning disabilities
• special needs school
• Sámi school
• upper-secondary school
• upper-secondary school for pupils with learning disabilities
• extramural day recreation centre
• other educational activities (e.g., open preschool, open extramural day recreation centre, childcare during extramural day recreation centre closures)
• equivalent outsourced activities.

Regarding record checks, Swedish National Agency for Education