Mr Tristram Hicks

Director Tristram Hicks Associates Ltd

Tristram Hicks was a member of the UK asset recovery committee from 2002 to 2012, directing the multi-agency strategy to implement the famous Proceeds of Crime Act. His strategic role was combined with operational command.

He joined the police as a constable in 1985, retiring as detective superintendent in 2012. By 1999 he was head of financial intelligence at Scotland Yard, leading teams of field/ financial intelligence, surveillance officers & analysts. In 2004, he set up & commanded the London Regional Asset Recovery Team, the first multi-agency team in London to tackle serious organised crime by ‘following the money’.

Delivering results:

In the ten years prior to 2003, UK agencies confiscated an annual average of just £15m (€20m) from criminals. The average confiscation over the next ten years increased tenfold to £130m (€200m).

From 2009 to date he has delivered technical assistance to foreign jurisdictions seeking to recover the proceeds of crime. His focus is on the relationship between the Reporting Sector, the Financial Intelligence Unit and the competent authorities and how agencies can work better together to better achieve FATF Immediate Outcomes 6, 7 and 8 (intelligence, prosecution and confiscation).

Tristram has degrees from the University of York (BA History, 1981) and University College London (MSc Crime Science, 2008)