MFDS 32 - Tristram Hicks

Tristram Hicks joined the London Metropolitan 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 organized crime by ‘following the money’, In the ten years prior to 2003, UK agencies confiscated an annual average of just £15m (cUSD20m) from criminals. Tristram was on the national all-agency committee that created and implemented the UK Proceeds of Crime Act, 2002. The average confiscation over the next ten years increased tenfold to £130m (cUSD200m). From 2009 to date he has delivered technical assistance to foreign jurisdictions seeking to recover the proceeds of corruption & organised crime. Tristram has degrees from the University of York (BA History, 1981) and University College London (MSc Crime Science, 2008)