A month after a passenger was allegedly raped by one of its drivers in the capital city of New Delhi, Uber has teamed up with screening company First Advantage to implement more stringent background checks on all its drivers.
Uber has said in a blog post that its arrangement with First Advantage will cover address verification, a local criminal court search, and a national criminal database search — over and above standard transport license checks for its drivers.
The company says that it has been pilot testing the new screening process in recent weeks, and that thousands of driver-partners are being screened and re-verified in several Indian cities, including New Delhi.
The announcement comes less than a week after Uber was sued by the passenger in the aforementioned rape case in a US court, where the firm was accused of failing to ensure passenger safety.
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