The basis upon which the payment to NaVCIS is calculated:
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. In view of this response, the applicant may consider a request to the FLA.
However, charges this year:
A referral into NaVCIS = £200
UK Seizures = £1000 + 8% of BBV variable.
Overseas seizures = £1500 + 8% of BBV variable.
Variable % is based upon year to date throughput and agreed budget.
UK and overseas seizure of shells / heavily damaged / engine only = £500 flat fee.
11/2024:
Funding details for NaVCIS.
As per retention guidelines to retain accounting records for 6 financial years plus the current financial year, please see the below breakdown of funding:
| Total Funding | |
| 2023-2024 | £2,193,524 |
| 2022-2023 | £1,929,483 |
| 2021-2022 | £1,948,682 |
| 2020-2021 | £2,125,606 |
| 2019-2020 | £1,859,881 |
| 2018-2019 | £1,774,446 |
A further breakdown below is of public and private funding:
| Private Sector | Public Sector | Total Funding | % Private | % Public | |
| 2023-2024 | £2,183,524 | £10,000 | £2,193,524 | 99.54% | 0.46% |
| 2022-2023 | £1,929,483 | £1,929,483 | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| 2021-2022 | £1,941,182 | £7,500 | £1,948,682 | 99.62% | 0.38% |
| 2020-2021 | £2,116,786 | £8,820 | £2,125,606 | 99.59% | 0.41% |
| 2019-2020 | £1,859,881 | £1,859,881 | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| 2018-2019 | £1,772,631 | £1,815 | £1,774,446 | 99.90% | 0.10% |
NaVCIS only receive direct funding from one insurance company who subscribes to the freight membership, they have contributed £4,500 per annum since becoming a member in May 2023.
NaVCIS do not currently provide a service directly insurers (other than restoring stolen vehicles to them that we seize during the course of our operational activities).
NaVCIS do work at UK Ports and work with the Ports Authorities and the Ports Police. NaVCIS has no financial relationship with them. It is purely operational. The NaVCIS Ports activities are funded by the funding that NaVCIS receives annually from the Finance and Leasing Association (the FLA). The FLA provides funding for NaVCIS Ports and Intelligence Operations.
NaVCIS do not receive any money for providing access to ANPR data. NaVCIS does not provide access to ANPR data.
Additionally, ‘NaVCIS Freight’ is entirely funded by industry – as advised on their website:
In 2021 NaVCIS Freight adopted a new funding model in order to sustain our services.
The funding model is crucial to ensure that NaVCIS Freight can continue targeting crime that affects the road haulage and freight transport industry in the UK.
Membership of NaVCIS Freight means that your organisation will have access to:
26 fortnightly freight bulletins
12 monthly freight reports
four quarterly freight reports
our annual freight crime bulletin
Only NaVCIS Freight members, NaVCIS Trusted Partners, and law enforcement partners will receive these bulletins and reports. We have previously been able to provide this information to all industry contacts for free. However, this is no longer financially viable.
We are inviting all industry contacts to become members of NaVCIS Freight in order to continue benefitting from the analysis that NaVCIS Freight works hard to provide.
The cost of membership is determined by the size of your organisation (according to published annual revenue).
Current annual fees are:
small business: £700
medium business: £2,500
large business £4,500
NaVCIS is a national policing unit and therefore is unable to make a profit. As a result, we hope to be able to reduce the cost of annual fees as membership numbers increase.
If you would like to sign up, or for more information about membership, please email us at freight@navcis.police.uk.