Policing with POCA in a Recession

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Policing with POCA in a Recession

• tristram.hicks_at_npia.pnn.police.uk

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Who?

• Trains and accredits all financial investigators
• FI Support System
• Joint Asset Recovery Database

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Payback Index 2002 to 2008
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Pre-POCA quality

• Confiscation order enforcement poor
• Restraint only available after charge
• Restraint has 250,000 starting threshold
• PACE cash seizures rare dependent on CJ
  result

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Milestones

• 2003 POCA enabled
• 2005 1st police target
• 2005 incentive money arrives
• 2006 incentive money to frontline
• 2009 MORI poll - 86 public approval
• 2009 Police league tables published

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London 2009

• 40 Payback Teams
• 40 Payback Superintendents
• Implementation Team
• JARD Payback Index

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Strategies
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Strategies
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SARS

• 2000 paper-based, 12 month backlog
• 2009 ELMER Panther, nil backlog
• Feedback 5000 people, 21m
• Reason for suspicion please

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Recession crime

• Youth crime (volume violent)
• Illegal money lending
• Increased second-hand market
• Resilient drugs market
• Immigration changes

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Recession police

• POCA efficiency effectiveness
• Cash seizure 46m, 85 success rate
• Each lifestyle arrest conviction relates to
  dozens even hundreds of crimes
• More restraint orders
• Saferlondonfoundation.org
• More with less - partnership

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Arthur C Clarke on reactions to revolutionary
ideas

• Its impossible
• Its possible but its not worth doing
• I said it was a good idea all along

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Policing with POCA in a Recession

• tristram.hicks_at_npia.pnn.police.uk