Our Partners

There is a multi-agency approach to ensuring that crime does not pay. The Agency works with a number of partners to play our part in that approach.

It is vital that information and skills are shared between law enforcement agencies- that is why ARA works closely with various bodies, such as the police and customs. We have a number of Memorandums of Understanding which set out how such cooperation is best managed.

The Agency is playing its part in the multi-agency approach to deliver the Government’s Asset Recovery Strategy. Under the cross government initiative 'Payback', the tracing of and recovery of assets is seen as an important element in the delivery of justice, and sends out a strong deterrent message. The overall aims of the strategy are to make greater use of the investigations of criminal assets in the fight against crime; recover money that has been made from crime or which is intended for use in crime; prevent criminals and their associates from laundering the proceeds of criminal conduct, and detect and penalise such laundering where it occurs; to use the proceeds recovered for the benefit of the community.