diff --git a/.github/linters/.perlcriticrc b/.github/linters/.perlcriticrc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ad6196a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/linters/.perlcriticrc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+severity = 1
+verbose  = %f:%l:%c [%s %p] %m near '%r'\n
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 3ebe7199..c9d057a2 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ RUN apk add --update --no-cache \
     musl-dev \
     npm nodejs-current \
     openjdk8-jre \
-    perl \
+    perl perl-dev \
     php7 php7-phar php7-json php7-mbstring php-xmlwriter \
     php7-tokenizer php7-ctype php7-curl php7-dom php7-simplexml \
     py3-setuptools \
@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ ENV PATH="/node_modules/.bin:${PATH}"
 ##############################
 RUN bundle install
 
+##############################
+# Installs Perl dependencies #
+##############################
+RUN curl -sL https://cpanmin.us/ | perl - -nq --no-wget Perl::Critic
+
 ##############################
 # Install Phive dependencies #
 ##############################
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 39fce71e..70c66c12 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Developers on **GitHub** can call the **GitHub Action** to lint their code base
 | **Lua**                          | [luacheck](https://github.com/luarocks/luacheck)                                                                                                                         |
 | **Markdown**                     | [markdownlint](https://github.com/igorshubovych/markdownlint-cli#readme)                                                                                                 |
 | **OpenAPI**                      | [spectral](https://github.com/stoplightio/spectral)                                                                                                                      |
-| **Perl**                         | [perl](https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86/perl)                                                                                                          |
+| **Perl**                         | [perlcritic](https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic)                                                                                                                      |
 | **PHP**                          | [PHP built-in linter](https://www.php.net/) [PHP CodeSniffer](https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer) [PHPStan](https://phpstan.org/n) [Psalm](https://psalm.dev/) |
 | **PowerShell**                   | [PSScriptAnalyzer](https://github.com/PowerShell/Psscriptanalyzer)                                                                                                       |
 | **Protocol Buffers**             | [protolint](https://github.com/yoheimuta/protolint)                                                                                                                      |
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Developers on **GitHub** can call the **GitHub Action** to lint their code base
 | **Raku**                         | [raku](https://raku.org)                                                                                                                                                 |
 | **Ruby**                         | [RuboCop](https://github.com/rubocop-hq/rubocop)                                                                                                                         |
 | **Shell**                        | [Shellcheck](https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck)                                                                                                                     |
-| **SQL**                        | [sql-lint](https://github.com/joereynolds/sql-lint)                                                                                                                     |
+| **SQL**                          | [sql-lint](https://github.com/joereynolds/sql-lint)                                                                                                                      |
 | **Terraform**                    | [tflint](https://github.com/terraform-linters/tflint) [terrascan](https://github.com/accurics/terrascan)                                                                 |
 | **TypeScript**                   | [eslint](https://eslint.org/) [standard js](https://standardjs.com/)                                                                                                     |
 | **XML**                          | [LibXML](http://xmlsoft.org/)                                                                                                                                            |
diff --git a/TEMPLATES/.perlcriticrc b/TEMPLATES/.perlcriticrc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ad6196a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/TEMPLATES/.perlcriticrc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+severity = 1
+verbose  = %f:%l:%c [%s %p] %m near '%r'\n
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/disabling-linters.md b/docs/disabling-linters.md
index c1d76476..42acb7f4 100644
--- a/docs/disabling-linters.md
+++ b/docs/disabling-linters.md
@@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ Here is more data
 
 ## Perl
 
-- [perl](https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86/perl)
+- `.github/linters/.perlcriticrc`
 
 ### Perl Config file
 
diff --git a/lib/buildFileList.sh b/lib/buildFileList.sh
index 9dd5502c..a55c35c0 100755
--- a/lib/buildFileList.sh
+++ b/lib/buildFileList.sh
@@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ function BuildFileList() {
     ######################
     # Get the PERL files #
     ######################
-    elif [ "${FILE_TYPE}" == "pl" ]; then
+    elif [ "${FILE_TYPE}" == "pl" ] || [ "${FILE_TYPE}" == "pm" ] || 
+      [ "${FILE_TYPE}" == "t" ]; then
       ################################
       # Append the file to the array #
       ################################
diff --git a/lib/linter.sh b/lib/linter.sh
index 6c689b85..abe9fb7d 100755
--- a/lib/linter.sh
+++ b/lib/linter.sh
@@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ if [ "${VALIDATE_PERL}" == "true" ]; then
   # Lint the perl files #
   #######################
   # LintCodebase "FILE_TYPE" "LINTER_NAME" "LINTER_CMD" "FILE_TYPES_REGEX" "FILE_ARRAY"
-  LintCodebase "PERL" "perl" "perl -Mstrict -cw" ".*\.\(pl\)\$" "${FILE_ARRAY_PERL[@]}"
+  LintCodebase "PERL" "perl" "perlcritic" ".*\.\(pl\|pm\|t\)\$" "${FILE_ARRAY_PERL[@]}"
 fi
 
 ################
diff --git a/lib/worker.sh b/lib/worker.sh
index 434fe2f0..029f2d42 100755
--- a/lib/worker.sh
+++ b/lib/worker.sh
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ function RunTestCases() {
   TestCodebase "KOTLIN" "ktlint" "ktlint" ".*\.\(kt\|kts\)\$" "kotlin"
   TestCodebase "LUA" "lua" "luacheck" ".*\.\(lua\)\$" "lua"
   TestCodebase "MARKDOWN" "markdownlint" "markdownlint -c ${MARKDOWN_LINTER_RULES}" ".*\.\(md\)\$" "markdown"
-  TestCodebase "PERL" "perl" "perl -Mstrict -cw" ".*\.\(pl\)\$" "perl"
+  TestCodebase "PERL" "perl" "perlcritic" ".*\.\(pl\|pm\|t\)\$" "perl"
   TestCodebase "PHP_BUILTIN" "php" "php -l" ".*\.\(php\)\$" "php"
   TestCodebase "PHP_PHPCS" "phpcs" "phpcs --standard=${PHP_PHPCS_LINTER_RULES}" ".*\.\(php\)\$" "php"
   TestCodebase "PHP_PHPSTAN" "phpstan" "phpstan analyse --no-progress --no-ansi -c ${PHP_PHPSTAN_LINTER_RULES}" ".*\.\(php\)\$" "php"