Keith Hughes Awards winners
A North Yorkshire Trading Standards officer and an investigative team at the Department for International Development (DFID) have won the 2011 Keith Hughes Awards.
A North Yorkshire Trading Standards officer and an investigative team at the Department for International Development (DFID) have won the 2011 Keith Hughes Awards.
The seventh annual Keith Hughes Awards were presented at the Payback Regional Asset Recovery Teams (RART) national best practice event in Stratford-Upon-Avon on Monday February 27. The awards recognise excellence in financial investigation and the successful application of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) and money laundering legislation. They are open to all accredited financial investigators (AFIs) and prosecutors using POCA in the UK, excluding Scotland.
The Keith Hughes Awards were established in memory of Detective Constable Keith Hughes, a financial investigator with the former National Crime Squad, who died from cancer in July 2003.
Joanna Bramley, North Yorkshire County Council Trading Standards, beat off stiff competition from North Yorkshire Police and South East RART, to win the Financial Investigation Individual Award.
The Financial Investigation Team Award was won by DFIDs Eastern Caribbean Financial Investigation Advisory Team.
Keith Hughes Awards 2011
Financial Investigation Individual Award
Winner Joanne Bramley (North Yorkshire County Council Trading Standards Services).
Runners-up Teresa Bentley (North Yorkshire Police); Renata Coutts (South East RART).
Financial Investigation Team Award
Winner Eastern Caribbean Financial Investigation Advisory Team (DFID).
Runners-up Civil Recovery and Tax London (Serious Organised Crime Agency); Special Intelligence Section Financial Investigation Unit (Metropolitan Police Service).
POCA Prosecutor Award
Winner David Mattan (Crown Prosecution Service, North East RART).
Runners-up Tony Baker (Crown Prosecution Service, West Midlands RART); Naomi Matthews (Nottingham City Council).