Lancashire crime update 22 Sept 2023

Lancashire's police and crime commissioner Andrew Snowden with an update on seizing proceeds of crime from criminals

Transcript

00:00 Hi, I'm Andrew Snowden, Lancashire's Police and Crime Commissioner, and in this week's

00:04 update video I want to talk to you about seizing cash off criminals, which might sound like

00:10 the right thing to do. It's very complicated, it's not straightforward, and it is the right

00:14 thing to do. So take those ill-gotten gains off criminals across our county to disrupt

00:20 their criminal activity, to make sure that crime isn't paying for them, and then to give

00:25 it back to local communities across our county to help prevent antisocial behaviour and exploitation

00:32 by criminal gangs in the future. Since I got elected I set something up called the Safer

00:37 Lancashire Neighbourhood Fund, which takes all that cash we seize off criminals, the

00:41 great work that the police do in Lancashire to whether it be seizing cash in cars on the

00:47 motorways, to identifying assets, working with HMRC to seize those criminally gained

00:54 cash and assets, and we give it back through the Safer Neighbourhood Fund to local communities.

00:59 I've done an explainer video, many people ask me about it, about how do the police seize

01:03 money, how do they go about doing it, what happens to it, and I've done that video which

01:07 is online and can be viewed on our Facebook page, you just have a look for Lancashire

01:12 Police and Crime Commissioner and they'll come up and have a watch of the video that

01:15 explains how the police go about seizing those cash and assets.