Proceeds of Crime

• Background Information
• Consultations
• Press Releases

Background Information

• Asset recovery committee and strategy
• Case Study Examples
• Draft Proceeds of Crime Bill
• Levi Report: Home Office Police Research Group Report on Investigating, seizing and Confiscating the Proceeds of Crime
• Proceeds of Crime Bill Full
• Proceeds of Crime Bill, Explanatory Notes
• Recovering the proceeds of Crime, a Performance and Innovation Unit Report, June 2000
• Working group on confiscation third report: Criminal Assets
• Regulatory Impact Assessment

Proceeds of Crime Act, Legislative Progression

• 26 June 2002
  Revised House of Lords print of Bill
• 25 June 2002
  House of Lords Report Stage Revised House of Lords print of Bill
• 13 May 2002
  Further House of Lords Committee Consideration
• 22 April 2002
  House of Lords Committee Stage

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Consultations

Responses from police forces, authorities and organisations

Leicestershire Constabulary (file size 62Kb)	Devon and Cornwall Constabulary (file size 92Kb)
Greater Manchester Police (file size 172Kb)	Sussex Police (file size 58Kb)
Hertfordshire Constabulary (file size 80Kb)	North Wales Police (file size 71Kb)
Gloucester Constabulary (file size 56Kb)	Hampshire Constabulary (file size 129Kb)
West Midlands Police (file size 106Kb)	Cambridge Police (file size 86Kb)
Merseyside Police (file size 1.68Mb)	British Transport Police (file size 78Kb)
Gwent Police (file size 62Kb)	Wiltshire Constabulary (file size 161Kb)
West Mercia Constabulary (file size 82b)	Norfolk Constabulary (file size 117Kb)

Kent Police Authority (file size 51Kb)

Avon and Somerset Police Authority (file size 50Kb)

Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland (file size 176Kb)

Police Federation of England and Wales (file size 134Kb)

Responses from other organisations

Northern Ireland Assembly (file size 1.68Mb)	The Information Commissioner (file size 1.68Mb)
Charity Commissioners (file size 1.68Mb)	Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council file size 1.68Mb)
Lord Chief Justice (file size 64Kb)	Law Society (file size 958Kb)
Law Society of Scotland (file size 468Kb)	Justice Clerks Society (file size 53Kb)
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (file size 1.22Mb)	Dr Terence Palfrey (file size 1.22Mb)
Council of Mortgage Lenders (file size 1.68Mb)	Chartered Institute of Taxation (file size 296Kb)
Institute of Directors (file size 1.68Mb)	UNIFI (file size 1.68Mb)
London Investment Bankers Association (file size 1.68Mb)	Pricewaterhouse Coopers (file size 1.46Mb)
Ernst and Young (file size 190Kb)	Liberty (file size 3.55Mb)
Justice (file size 553Kb)	Raymond Angel (file size 107Kb)

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Press Releases

2002

• 5 November 2002
  Director of New Assets Recovery Agency Appointment - Bidders to receive over £11 million in recovered assets
• 14 October 2002
  Guidance published on Investigation Powers
• 23 August 2002
  Cash Seizure and Money Laundering
• 25 July 2002
  Proceeds of Crime Bill Receives Royal Assent
• 12 July 2002
  Government Seeks Director For The New Assets Recovery Agency
• Dedicated Financial Investigators for Police Forces to Track and Trace Criminal Cash

2001

• 23 October 2001
  Tough new powers to search and seize criminal cash announced
• 5 March 2001
  Proposals to Remove Criminals' Ill-Gotten Gains