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18/07/2007
Financial Investigators target 'organised crime'.
The PSNI are planning a ‘major new offensive’ aimed at disrupting Northern Ireland’s multi-million pound crime industry.
A reinforced team will target criminals in Northern Ireland using over 60 specialist financial investigators covering all eight policing districts.
A PSNI spokesperson said the new investigators would “directly target criminals at all levels”.
A cheque for £100,000 will be shared amongst the eight districts and will be presented today by Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde.
The money will be used to fight the ‘scourge’ of organised crime and is part of the proceeds seized from criminals over recent years.
A total of £1.5m has been obtained during the 2006-07 period, which included proceeds from 14 confiscation orders.
Applications to the High Court to stop suspects selling off their assets can be made by the Financial Investigators and recently the PSNI Financial Investigation Units have obtained 27 restraint orders preventing suspects from selling off £11 million of goods that were gained through criminal activity.
Detective Superintendent Roy McComb, who heads the Economic Crime Bureau within the PSNI, said: “With a financial investigator now embedded in every policing district, organised criminals are being hunted right across the province”.
The unit have also invested in a number of specially trained “cash dogs” that have the ability to sniff out large amounts of illegal money.
Confiscated cash was used to invest in these specially trained animals.
(SB/SP)
A reinforced team will target criminals in Northern Ireland using over 60 specialist financial investigators covering all eight policing districts.
A PSNI spokesperson said the new investigators would “directly target criminals at all levels”.
A cheque for £100,000 will be shared amongst the eight districts and will be presented today by Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde.
The money will be used to fight the ‘scourge’ of organised crime and is part of the proceeds seized from criminals over recent years.
A total of £1.5m has been obtained during the 2006-07 period, which included proceeds from 14 confiscation orders.
Applications to the High Court to stop suspects selling off their assets can be made by the Financial Investigators and recently the PSNI Financial Investigation Units have obtained 27 restraint orders preventing suspects from selling off £11 million of goods that were gained through criminal activity.
Detective Superintendent Roy McComb, who heads the Economic Crime Bureau within the PSNI, said: “With a financial investigator now embedded in every policing district, organised criminals are being hunted right across the province”.
The unit have also invested in a number of specially trained “cash dogs” that have the ability to sniff out large amounts of illegal money.
Confiscated cash was used to invest in these specially trained animals.
(SB/SP)
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