If you have a criminal record will the royal marines still take you on?

Answer 1

Depending on the severity of the offence that was committed and how much time has elapsed since the last offence would be critical with an application.

The law in Britain is that the royal naval service must follow in the same process of a civilian organisation. The processing of an applicant it is as follows, the rehabilitation of offenders act 1974 states that you must declare all criminal(UNSPENT) convictions that have gone through a court service,

this act also states that from the time of the offender has been sentenced a rehabilitation period will be given for example:

A fine that has been given to offender through the courts ,this is 5 years rehabilitation period, there are more stringent periods for custodial sentences.

Here is site's to look at: www.unlock.org.uk ,nacro.org.uk

unlock and narco will give very detailed information on rehabilitation periods.

currently there is a reform in progress of the rehabilitation of offenders act 1974 to change the length of the rehabilitation periods. also updates of were the bills next date announcement will be in parliament.so keep an eye on unlock the website that is listed above.

But in terms of finding out whether or not you can join is solely up to your royal marines local career advisor on this issue. Also some cases of extraordinary circumstance a criminal waiver application can be processed but only this can be decided by the careers officer and you will have no right to ask of this, it will be to the careers advisors desecration and must then be passed on a higher level. This will also be of interest-

br3 naval personnel management June 2013 edition, chapter 7, section 0737,

part (f)this will give you more insight to matter, input this into Google search and should come up.

I hope this helps people, I've experienced this process first hand.

I wish everyone the best of luck.