Proceeds of Crime Act news 02/02/2009 Kirklees police set up Proceeds of Crime team

Kirklees police have set up a specialist Proceeds of Crime team to deal with financial crime and reclamation of criminal property under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) in the Huddersfield area.

Although financial investigators have been working in Kirklees for some time, said a spokeperson, the formation of the POCA team provides us with a much greater focus. The core business for the team will be to target those within the district who are actively involved in a wide range of illegal activity, whether that is drug dealing, counterfeit offences or sexual exploitation which are all linked by acquiring substantial assets with no legitimate sources of income.

More than £60,000 in criminal property has been seized in the Kirklees area in the past nine months, and a number of arrests and seizures has been made by the POCA team as part of the forces Proceeds of Crime week.

Sergeant Mark Taylor, from the new anti-money laundering team, said, The message is plain and simple, if people engage themselves in crime centred on acquiring assets, the Kirklees POCA team will proactively clamp down upon them. Those who use proceeds of crime to lead their lives provide only distress for their victims and are in themselves negative community figures.

Through undertaking our operations, we are able to take away their ill-gotten gains and remove them from our neighbourhoods.

Detective Chief Inspector Dave Knopwood added, I would call on members of the public to come forward and help the police to put a stop to those benefiting from the proceeds of crime.

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