Issue - meetings

The report by the Director of Culture, Leisure and Regulatory Services seeks to provide a strategic overview of how the Local Authority through Regulatory Services shall implement a framework designed to deliver, embed, and review the implications of the acquisition of the powers contained within the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA).

RECOMMENDED that the Cabinet approves the actions as set out within Section 8 of the report, namely the:

•           development of Council wide processes, guidance and templates for the comprehensive implementation of POCA frameworks across all PCC services;

•           use of risk assessed POCA interventions wherever possible;

•           setting up of a £50,000 reserve to offset against costs incurred during the process of pursuing actions via the Courts in respect to criminal proceedings and POCA activities.

The Cabinet

(1)  approved the actions as set out within Section 8 of the report, namely the:

• development of Council wide processes, guidance and templates for the comprehensive implementation of POCA frameworks across all PCC services;

• use of risk assessed POCA interventions wherever possible;

• setting up of a £50,000 reserve to offset against costs incurred during the process of pursuing actions via the Courts in respect to criminal proceedings and POCA activities.

(2)  Asked that regular update reports be brought to the Cabinet Member for Community Safety's decision meetings.