Only enhanced disclosures are sent to police forces as part of the Disclosure Service. Data concerning the average time taken to complete a disclosure by police force area are not a performance target and are not collated by the CRB. Comparative police force performance data can be found on the CRB website at
www.crb.gov.uk
Average figures do not give an accurate indication of performance, since any force's performance can be affected by a number of factors; the volume of cases sent to a force to process in any given month, the number of staff available to process the checks and the IT resources on hand to forces. With these variables, performance can fluctuate within individual forces from one month to the next.