Cash from crimes to be reinvested

NORTH East groups providing support for the local community are set to be supported using money taken from criminals.

- NICOLE GOODWIN

Northumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Susan Dungworth, has launched a new £100,000 Commissioner’s Community Fund and is inviting local organisations for ideas to make communities feel safer, stronger and more connected.

The fund has been designed to help deliver the goals of Ms Dungworth’s Police and Crime Plan for Northumbria, and is there to help grassroots projects and local groups that provide locally-led support for vulnerable people, create positive opportunities for young people, and reduce antisocial behaviour and crime.

Some of the money used to create this fund has been recovered by police under the Proceeds of Crime Act (PoCA).

This ensures that money taken from criminals is reinvested into the communities it once harmed.