The British Ministry of Internal Affairs will start a new IT system on millions confiscated from criminals

At the beginning of September, 2020 the British Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that it is going to start a new IT system on the money confiscated from criminals. It will replace the IT system of 15-year which was used for collection of data on criminal assets as, according to the Ministry, an old system "does not meet modern expectations on data collection and the subsequent analytics".

This IT system and the related database called by the Integrated database on recovery of assets (JARD) is used by police, Royal public prosecutor's service, Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service, department of fight against serious fraud and local authorities.

The British Ministry of Internal Affairs will provide a new IT system on millions confiscated from criminals

Replacement of the IT system will be paid from 1.6 billion pounds sterling confiscated from criminals during the period from April, 2010 to March, 2018. Such use of the confiscated means is provided by the Law on income from criminal activity of 2002. The Ministry of Internal Affairs already tries to estimate "potential commercial versions of the ready-made solution" and possible costs. Officially tender for participation in the project will begin in February, 2021. Project cost is 25 million pounds sterling.

The contract will include creation of the new IT system for recovery of assets covering data storage, management of debt collection, financial monitoring, financial analytics, the reporting and management of documents. The data which are stored in future system will be available to all staff of the connected departments.

The center of regulation of income from criminal activity together with National council of chiefs of police studies viability of the technical solution allowing to load data from JARD into the national computer of police to guarantee stable work.[1]

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