More organizations and agencies involved with children need to assume the responsibility to initiate checks of prospective employees' or volunteers' backgrounds and do what they can to ensure the safety of the children in their care. If someone commits a crime or an offence after the police check was conducted, that information will obviously not appear on the report. The use of an information system for screening purposes must be approached with caution, and with full knowledge of the limitations of the system for users. Thus, it must be emphasized that this is only one tool to possibly prevent some cases of future child sexual abuse. If screening of individuals was based on police records alone, many non-convicted child sex offenders could pass undetected in a screening .
Many pedophiles go years without even being charged, 'accumulating' a disturbing number of victims.
Numerous studies show that 'career' child molesters have between 20 and 75 victims. Other research shows that some pedophiles have confessed to having as many as 500 victims. It must be emphasized that the use of CPIC is only one strategy to reduce violence against children and that efforts must continue to develop and use other prevention tools . They can also provide a very detailed character assessment after conducting interviews with their former employers, supervisors, and peers. Pardons Pardons are granted to those persons who were found guilty of a criminal offence, have satisfied the sentence imposed by the court, and subsequently have shown themselves to be of good behaviour.