DV Clearance has anyone recently been through it need advice please!!!

[ExArmy]

Hey,

Thanks for checking out my post.

I recently left the British Army in Feb and am just starting the DV clearance process for a Job Role.

I am not too worried with regards to the hard questions and probing and want to be 110% honest with the person that interviews me.

However in my past i have in my stupid yrs dabbled very very very rarely with Cocaine and when i left the Army this year i very stupidly in a drunken state decided it would be clever to try it again, i woke the next day genuinely discusted with myself and have and never will try it again and have also cut ties with anyone associated with that kind of stuff since the night in question about 6 months ago.

I really want this position and am worried now i may have jepordized my clearance does anyone have any advice or experience in weather i will get declined, obviously in my interview i will declare this and i have no major debt problems or criminal convictions and no other issues.

Thanks in advance for your comments

[northernladuk]

I would be discusted [sic] with you as well.

This is a forum full of dodgy characters (just look in general), no need to justify your actions to us.

Bottom line is... Who knows about this? Is it likely to end up on record somewhere? They can only question you about stuff they know about and I highly doubt they have CCTV of you in toilets pushing crap up your nose.

Was it reported or documented officially? If not then I can't see how it can come up.

[malvolio]

I would be discusted [sic] with you as well.

This is a forum full of dodgy characters (just look in general), no need to justify your actions to us.

Bottom line is... Who knows about this? Is it likely to end up on record somewhere? They can only question you about stuff they know about and I highly doubt they have CCTV of you in toilets pushing crap up your nose.

Was it reported or documented officially? If not then I can't see how it can come up.

Ignore the above, he's talking bollocks for once....

Don't p!ss about with clearance. They are testing to see if you can be trusted with Top Secret material and aren't open to coercion, including by people threatening to talk about your drug-addled past ( ). Telling fibs is possibly not the best way to persuade them.

Chances are they know about it already (especially if you're ex military). They'll also be interviewing people about you and those people may not be as discrete as you may wish.

Be honest. They won't care, it may even work in your favour.

[BolshieBastard]

Hey,

Thanks for checking out my post.

I recently left the British Army in Feb and am just starting the DV clearance process for a Job Role.

I am not too worried with regards to the hard questions and probing and want to be 110% honest with the person that interviews me.

However in my past i have in my stupid yrs dabbled very very very rarely with Cocaine and when i left the Army this year i very stupidly in a drunken state decided it would be clever to try it again, i woke the next day genuinely discusted with myself and have and never will try it again and have also cut ties with anyone associated with that kind of stuff since the night in question about 6 months ago.

I really want this position and am worried now i may have jepordized my clearance does anyone have any advice or experience in weather i will get declined, obviously in my interview i will declare this and i have no major debt problems or criminal convictions and no other issues.

Thanks in advance for your comments

If you got done for anything and dont declare it, it will affect your chance. I know someone who'd got a caution for having a couple of spliffs and didnt declare it for a security cleared role. Although they were allowed on site for day one, they didnt make day two.

Also, if you are going for a security cleared role with someone like G4S, you have to declare spent convictions too as they have exemption from the usual statute of limitations.

[adubya]

As above, be honest, declare it all. I know someone who's had a very colourful background included coke taking and he got his DV. He was very honest about it all and I think the interviewer was rather taken aback by some of his admissions

[northernladuk]

If you got done for anything and dont declare it, it will affect your chance. I know someone who'd got a caution for having a couple of spliffs and didnt declare it for a security cleared role. Although they were allowed on site for day one, they didnt make day two.

Also, if you are going for a security cleared role with someone like G4S, you have to declare spent convictions too as they have exemption from the usual statute of limitations.

Where in any of his explaination does he mention getting done for anything?

[DiscoStu]

Where in any of his explaination does he mention getting done for anything?

You don't need to get done for anything, for DV clearance they do an awful lot of digging!

[northernladuk]

You don't need to get done for anything, for DV clearance they do an awful lot of digging!

Am aware of that. I was responding to Bolshies comment.

[TheFaQQer]

Am aware of that. I was responding to Bolshies comment.

They'll look into your friends and family as well, so if there is anything there, then it's best to come clean early rather than fail later.

[Mr.Whippy]

Was it reported or documented officially? If not then I can't see how it can come up.

I know people who've had to go through drugs testing for DV roles to test for recent (6-12 months) use.