Regional Asset Recovery Team (RART)

The North East Regional Asset Recovery Team (RART) is one of five nationwide. It works with seven police forces across the North East including the four forces of Yorkshire and the Humber.

The North East RART is made up of specialists who use their considerable skills together with the powerful tool of Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) to strip proven criminals of their assets gained through criminal activity.

To date, the team has an outstanding record of 181 confiscation orders resulting in almost £25 million obtained through POCA. The North East RART uses covert policing techniques to gain evidence and investigate offending - such as money laundering, fraud and corruption – developing cases to conviction and then passing them on to the confiscation team.

The Regional Asset Recovery Teams comprise specialist money laundering investigation techniques and asset recovery tools to tackle organised criminals. Their success is due largely to the multi-agency approach comprising expert teams from police forces, HM Revenue and Customs, HM Court Services Enforcement Team and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), with links to other agencies such as the Food Standards Agency, Trading Standards Agency and UK Border Agency.

POCA is proving to be a powerful tool against serious and organised criminals as stripping them of their assets has the dual affect of dismantling their illegal activities and removing negative role models that live and operate in local communities from local communities. Assets recovered from criminals are invested back into local communities where criminals and their activities have previously caused harm.

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Cash and goods seized by the Regional Asset Recovery Team.