Proceeds of Crime
The POCC train and accredit all financial investigators in the UK, about 2,300 staff in all police forces, 17 government agencies and 73 local authorities. It delivers ten courses in the main disciplines of financial intelligence, anti-money laundering and asset recovery. For details of training courses click here A national MORI poll published by the Home Office in July 2009 showed that 86 per cent of respondents supported it and over half felt it was an effective or very effective crime deterrent. The IAB is the gateway to UK training which provides leadership and technical assistance worldwide. The IAB increases the capability and capacity of foreign states to counter internal and shared threats. This in turn directly enhances UK and global safety and security. The IAB now has an International Policing Adviser, Proceeds of Crime. Supt. Tristram Hicks brings strategic expertise in how international legislation in anti-money laundering, asset recovery and financial investigation can be applied to tackling serious organised crime in particular and policing problems in general. He has been an expert adviser to government on the Prime Ministerial reviews of asset recovery and on all three major reviews of the UK Suspicious Activity Report regime since 2003. In 2009 he moved to the NPIA to develop the use of POCA nationally and internationally.
The UK Proceeds of Crime Act, 2002, provides tools which enhance the strategic approach to any policing problem. Frequently, POCA solutions are cheaper, quicker and 
more effective than traditional policing methods. Asset recovery from criminals, for example, strikes directly at the main motive for crime, deterring offenders, disrupting organised crime and reassuring the public. 
Detective Superintendent Tristram Hicks has been a police officer for 24 years with the Metropolitan Police. He qualified as a Financial Investigator and, has managed teams of dedicated financial investigators at New Scotland Yard. He started the Met Police 'Payback' Programme, implementing the local use of financial investigation across London.
