Horses among items seized from criminals

Horses, greyhounds, boats together with fifty-fifty a rare postage stamp collection are amid odd items seized past times constabulary inwards Suffolk together with Norfolk since Britain’s Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) was introduced 10 years ago.

Norfolk together with Suffolk Police convey seized nearly £16 meg worth of assets funded past times criminal offense since the human activeness came into force.

The legislation was enacted inwards Parliament inwards 2002 precisely non implemented inwards its entirety until 1 Apr 2003.

During the 10 years since the Act was brought inwards Norfolk together with Suffolk Police convey recovered millions of pounds from an array of dissimilar investigations.

In total over 1300 confiscation orders nether the human activeness convey been issued across the 2 counties together with over 160 cash forfeiture orders. In Norfolk assets valued at over £6.6m convey been seized together with inwards Suffolk that figure is over £9.3m.

The legislation is used to ensure that those people who convey been constitute past times the courts to convey benefited from crime, are forced to pay dorsum the net turn a profit they convey made from their crimes.

The confiscation guild is determined past times the extent of the individual’s create goodness from crime, together with the value of assets that they have.

With the focus firmly upon victims of crime, constabulary attempt to ensure that they are compensated, where possible inwards full, whilst inwards cases which create non take away a victim, funds realised from the sale of criminal assets are remitted to the government, alongside the Crown Prosecution Service together with constabulary receiving a percent of those funds.

Police convey used their powers to seize assets funded past times criminal offense across a wide spectrum of criminal activity, ranging from drug trafficking, coin laundering, counterfeiting, sexual exploitation together with people trafficking, to an array of the to a greater extent than mutual offences such theft, burglary together with robbery.

In the principal the recovered assets convey included cash, property, vehicles, jewellery together with electrical goods, whilst other items that constabulary convey seized include boats, horses, greyhounds together with fifty-fifty a rare postage stamp collection.

Detective Inspector Sean Coyne of the articulation Economic Crime Unit, said: “The Proceeds of Crime Act is a really powerful tool which gives us the chance to target together with tackle criminals, together with brand them pay for their crimes.

“We volition choke on to target those individuals who drive the nigh impairment inwards our communities, past times stripping them of the net turn a profit they convey made from their interest inwards criminal offense together with reinforcing the message that criminal offense does non pay.”

 

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