UK Govt’s Crime and Policing Act 2026 reforms POCA Part 2 to streamline confiscation through tighter lifestyle rules, clearer asset recovery, faster timetables, and improved restraint order safeguards

The guidance explains how the Crime and Policing Act 2026 reforms Part 2 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, including changes to criminal lifestyle assumptions, hidden asset determinations, tainted gifts, confiscation timetables, early resolution meetings and restraint orders. It clarifies that the principal objective of Part 2 confiscation powers is to deprive defendants of the benefit of criminal conduct so far as this is within their means…