National Crime Agency: Staff
(asked on 25th October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the (a) budget, (b) headcount, and (c) the number of accreditations issued to financial investigators for each year in the last five years by the National Crime Agency's Proceeds of Crime Centre.
(a) budget
The total spending of the Proceeds of Crime Centre (POCC) over in each of the last five financial years is in the table below. This covers a range of costs, for example pay, overtime, travel, training delivery costs.
Financial year | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 (year to date[1]) |
£ | 982,365 | 962,650 | 874,568 | 937,167 | 501,138 |
(b) headcount
The headcount of the POCC now, and at the end of the preceding four financial years, and the year to date is in the table below.
| March 2018 | March 2019 | March 2020 | March 2021 | October 2021 |
Staff in post | 14 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 20 |
(c) number of accreditations
The number of new accreditations given to Financial Investigators (FIs) by the POCC is set out below. The POCC also provides accredited FIs with Continuous Professional Development assurance and advice. In addition the POCC does a variety of work beyond new accreditations for FIs, including accreditations to non-FIs, providing non-accredited training, and acting as expert advisers across Law Enforcement.
Financial year | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 (year to date[2]) |
Financial Investigators accredited | 201 | 241 | 151 | 119 | 140 |
Confiscators* accredited | 143 | 118 | 83 | 51 | 47 |
*Confiscator accreditation can be gained by experienced FIs in order to hold additional powers.
[1] As of the 26th October 2021
[2] As of 28th October 2021