Tristram Hicks

Detective Superintendent,
Proceeds of Crime Implementation Team (PoCIT), Metropolitan Police Service

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Detective Superintendent Tristram Hicks joined the Metropolitan Police in 1985 and served in various operational roles across south London.

By 1997 he was the Detective Inspector in charge of Bexley’s Operation Harrier anti-burglary campaign. Since 1999 he has been an operational manager at the Economic & Specialist Crime Unit (SCD6) at Scotland Yard. He has specialised in asset recovery and financial intelligence, being the police representative on the key national multi-agency committees. Since 2001 he has been an expert adviser to Government, being one of two senior police representatives on the Prime Minister’s review of asset recovery (2006), and on the KPMG (2002), Fleming (2005), and Lander (2006) reviews of the UK Suspicious Activity Report regime.

In 2004 Tristram set up London’s Regional Asset Recovery Team, a multi-agency criminal confiscation unit led by the Met Police. In July 2006 he set up a Met Police team to implement the Met Police ‘Payback’ Programme, i.e. the local use of asset recovery powers across London. Asset recovery is now in general use in every borough and the number and value of cases is at record levels.