Some of the motorists convicted for Drink or Drunk Driving always wonder if they have committed a criminal record.  When they seek employment, one of the questions asked is : Have you been convicted under the court of Law ?  Have you been charged for Criminal acts?  Let us explore the meaning of these.

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What is a criminal record?

A criminal record is a record of conviction by the court for a person guilty of a registrable offence.  The registrable offences are mainly crimes like theft, molestation, Scams and cheating etc.  For Road Traffic , Causing death with a vehicle and anything dealing with taking of life of another party is considered a criminal record.  This is especially so if the person does it intentionally.  But for drink and drunk driving, the case is not so UNLESS it is proven that the person drink and drunk just to cause harm to others.  For normal over the limits of drink driving and not causing accident , injury or deaths, it will not be considered.

Drink driving is not considered a regular offence
So drink driving is NOT a registrable offence and there is no court record of the conviction. Only the involved departments such as TP will enforce the keeping of the record internally.

However, do not be mistaken by questions from your HR with regards to this.  If you have been imprisoned for any offence, you will need to declare if the question on conviction is asked.  Any imprisonment or jail sentence is considered conviction.  If the question is asked about criminal record, UNLESS you have killed someone using your vehicle or intentionally caused accident, injury or deaths with your vehicle, then you will need to declare.  The safest is to ask your HR directly.

The usual case is that if you have been charged for drink driving and suspended for 1 year etc.  there is no need to declare.  Unless the job you are applying for is primarily driving like Uber or Taxi driver.