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Details of thousands of pounds in assets paid back by criminals are being made public.
Every month the top payments made under the Proceeds of Crime Act will be published on the Northamptonshire Criminal Justice Board website, listing the offence, location of the offender and the amount paid.
The first published details show that a drug trafficker from Kettering paid 29,035.64 in November.
To date the trafficker has paid 32,605.64 back.
The trafficker's assets identified by police included shares, a pension, a business and a car.
The Proceeds of Crime Act allows the Police, Crown Prosecution Service and the courts to identify and order the repayment of the proceeds of crime.
But the act does not just apply to cash.
In cases where crime has paid for tangible items – such as a house, a car or a television – or has been paid into a scheme such as a pension plan, the courts can order that the value of these assets must also be repaid.
Northamptonshire Police's chief constable Adrian Lee, who is also chairman of the Northamptonshire Criminal Justice Board, said: "I am delighted that people in Northamptonshire now have this chance to see what we are doing.
"Itis important that the public know that the decisions of the court are enforced and that criminals who have damaged their communities are
being made to pay backthe profits of their crime."
Last year in Northamptonshire criminals were forced to pay back 1.5m which were identified by the courts as being the profits of criminal activity.
Some of the money is paid to victims in compensation payments, some is put back into funding frontline staff for the police and Crown Prosecution Service.
Some cash which is paid back goes into community projects.
The launch of the scheme to publish details comes as the Evening Telegraph reported yesterday that criminals who commit minor offences in the county could have details of their punishments publicised to raise public awareness of how they are being dealt with.
It is believed Northamptonshire is the first county to make this information publically available.
The Proceeds of Crime payments can be seen at http://lcjb.cjsonline.gov.uk/Northamptonshire/3666.html.
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