Aug 2005

• 12/08/05 PROCEEDS OF CRIME SPECIAL - FINANCIAL INVESTIGATORS SPECIAL
  Redcar and Cleveland Council’s Trading Standards Unit is using a new power in its ongoing battle to catch counterfeiters. The Unit’s Principal Trading Standards Officer (TSO) Julian Sorrell has become the first TSO in the country to earn accreditation from the Assets Recovery Agency as a finance investigator under the Proceeds of Crime Act. ......

Jul 2005

• 28/07/05 PROCEEDS OF CRIME SPECIAL - RECOVERED ASSETS
  Recovered assets are being used to benefit communities and enhance the funding to front line services to carry on taking the cash out of crime and effectively reduce crime overall. ......
• 14/07/05 PROCEEDS OF CRIME SPECIAL - CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE
  Since the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) came into force courts have had the power to confiscate any benefit gained by criminals through their criminal activity and over the last two years Suffolk prosecutors have used these powers regularly and successfully. ......

Jan 2005

• 20/01/05 PROCEEDS OF CRIME SPECIAL - THE ENFORCEMENT TASK FORCE
  Since its beginnings in December 2002 the Enforcement Task Force (ETF), working closely with the Magistrates’ Courts, has recovered almost £52 million from over 820 defendants as a result of successfully enforcing pre – POCA (Proceeds of Crime Act) confiscation orders. Approximately £6 million of this has gone directly back to the victims of crime. ......