Crime pays ???

1. Crime pays ???

2. 43 x Police Forces of England and Wales1 x Serious Organised Crime Agency – FIU, CARIN, Interpol, ARO1 x Crown Prosecution Service 1 Avon & Somerset 2 Bedfordshire 3 Cambridgeshire 4 Cheshire 5 City of London 6 Cleveland 7 Cumbria 8 Derbyshire 9 Devon and Cornwall 10 Dorset 11 Durham 12 Dyfed-Powys 13 Essex 14 Gloucestershire 15 Greater Manchester 16 Gwent 17 Hampshire 18 Hertfordshire 19 Humberside 20 Kent 21 Lancashire 22 Leicestershire 23 Lincolnshire 24 Merseyside 25 Metropolitan 26 Norfolk 27 Northamptonshire 28 Northumbria 29 North Wales 30 North Yorkshire 31 Nottinghamshire 32 South Wales 33 South Yorkshire 34 Staffordshire 35 Suffolk 36 Surrey 37 Sussex 38 Thames Valley 39 Warwickshire 40 West Mercia 41 West Midlands 42 West Yorkshire 43 Wiltshire

3. UK £m 1970 - 2000

4. UK £m 1970 - 2012

5. Proceeds of Crime Act • Cash seizure • Early Freezing • Regional Asset Recovery Teams • Accredited Financial Investigators • Lifestyle ‘extended confiscation’

7. Freezing Charge I N T E L L I G E N C E Trial and Confiscation Indictment Arrest Managing police resources

9. Financial investigators

10. Regional Asset Recovery Offices

11. Regional Asset Recovery Office • Multi-agency team of Prosecutors, Police, Customs, Revenue, Social Welfare • Investigates the criminal finances in parallel with forces/ agencies • Cross-border serious organised crime

12. UK £m 1970 - 2012

13. UK £m 1970 - 2012

17. Options to tackle organised crime • Financial intelligence • Financial evidence (e.g. Money laundering) • Asset recovery

18. Intelligence Financial evidence Asset recovery

19. Uses of Financial investigation • Use financial intelligence to identify other people who hold proceeds of crime • Use money laundering evidence to produce better evidence • Use asset recovery to recover proceeds of crime held by people known to police

20. Accredited Investigators

21. Training History • Fraud Training • Fraud and Confiscation Training • Confiscation Training • Intelligence then Investigation then Confiscation Training

24. Course Format • Pre-read • 5 day course • Allocation of Tutor • Creation of Professional Development Portfolio • Regular Continuous PD

25. Course style • Interactive problem solving • Main Courses follow one case

28. Council of EU Recommendation • “To EU, its Member States, their institutions and agencies • UK legal measures, which have proved to be highly effective, such as civil recovery, cash forfeiture and POCA investigatory powers need to be thoroughly explained and discussed at EU level. • The role and powers of financial investigators as well as their training system need to be presented at EU level and taken into account when common EU standards or training projects are being developed.

31. STR:

32. STR: WHO How and Why What & When

33. Address Family name Telephone Police event Vehicle Company Finance

34. Citizen database Police Intelligence database STR database Address, Family name Police event Telephone, Vehicle, Company, Finance Other databases

37. UK: how not to do it

38. Joint Asset Recovery Database Tracking Statistics Matching repeat suspects Multi-agency Cooperation

39. Questions? tristram.hicks@npia.pnn.police.uk +447879603393