Private Police Funding – a short chronology of cases which, read together, show a clear development in the Court of Appeal’s treatment of commercially funded policing – read more here.
General funding information can be read here.
- 10/2026 – Fraud & Theft investigator vacancy
- 30/09/2026 – When Industry Pays for Policing – Where Is the Line?
- 07/06/2026 – NaVCIS – Industry-Funded Enforcement — But How, Exactly?
- 2026 – Governance & transparency briefing note
- 2026 Parliamentary question
- 2024 & 2025 Parliamentary questions
- 27/05/2026 – Protected: – NPCC treatment, NaVCIS conduct and vehicle-crime governance concerns
- Disconnect between the NPCC & NaVCIS
- Inconsistent and unfair treatment
- NaVCIS engagement and lack of follow-through
- Mercedes key enquiry
- NaVCIS remit, funding and prioritisation
- Title considerations, theft/fraud distinction and innocent purchaser assistance
- PNC / lost-stolen marker governance
- Public-policing cost / No cost to the taxpayer
- Wider vehicle-crime investigation concern
- 06/05/2026 – Home Office Records Reveal NaVCIS Was “Working Month to Month”
- 26/02/2026 – NaVCIS Funding: Still No Specifics – ‘NaVCIS is funded by industry partners, including finance and leasing companies, insurers and hauliers’.
- 16/02/2026 – WDTK FoIA response from the Home Office re NaVCIS funding – ‘NaVCIS is entirely funded by the Finance Leasing Association under the provisions of the Police Act 1996′
- 02/2026 – NaVCIS made 280 submissions to Action Fraud in 2023 and 2024 (NaVCIS statistics)
- 21/01/2026 – AVCIS & ACPO, NaVCIS & NPCC. Why ACPO matters to today’s questions about NaVCIS
- 04/2025 – Internal Review request for 04/04/2026 refusal:
- The Internal Review Request
- FoIA & ‘Vexatious’
- FLA & the FoIA
- FoIA ‘Value & Serious Purpose‘:
- FoIA & ‘Motive’
- FoIA & ‘Burden’
- FoIA & ‘Overwhelming’
- FoIA ‘Distress &/or Obstruction’
- FoIA ‘191 emails’
- FoIA ‘Senior Management Discussions’
- FoIA resources
- FoIA & ‘Response Timeliness’
- FoIA ‘Prior FoIA Requests’
- FoIA ‘Similar Requests’
- 04/04/2025 – FoIA re NaVCIS Statistics – refused.
- 20/01/2025 – Governance & MoUs relating to NaVCIS & Recovery Rates – see also FoIA 0131/2025 and:
- 2024 – NaVCIS Historical Funding – the 2012 financial relationship between AVCIS & UK Ports and associated offer of assistance and ANPR access. No information held.
- ‘NaVCIS calculates the required budget/funding required for the financial year, then the decision is the FLAs as to how they will recoup the money from their members. They calculate the seizure, referral and % of BBV required to cover the funding, we provide the FLA with all the referral and seizure data for them to calculate this.’
- ‘The applicant may consider a request to the FLA’*
*However, the FLA is a private organisation, not a public authroity, not subject to the FoIA and … declined to comment when asked about funding [exchanges to follow].
- 01/04/2024 – NaVCIS Services 01/04/2024 to 01/03/2025 – Part funded (92%) by FLA: commencing 1st April 2024 is £2,283,984 plus VAT, payable in four equal instalments. Staff breakdown provided.
- 2023 – NaVCIS 867 LoS entries on PNC