Rob
Vingerhoets
Rob Vingerhoets has been a police officer with York Regional Police for over 17 years and is currently assigned to the Proceeds of Crime and Asset Forfeiture section of the Financial Crimes Unit, holding the rank of Detective Constable. In this role, he is part of a team investigating money laundering and proceeds of crime, identifying and seizing criminal assets which may be subject to forfeiture, and providing financial investigative support to other criminal investigations. D/C Vingerhoets previously spent 6 years in the Major Fraud Unit where he developed a specialization in investigating payment card frauds and identity thefts. D/C Vingerhoets has built partnerships between law enforcement and the retail sector to combat organized retail crimes, and he has developed and teaches the YRP Financial Crimes Investigations course for criminal investigators.
In 2019 D/C Vingerhoets was seconded to Interpol in Lyon, France, where he joined the Works of Art Unit and examined money laundering related to cultural heritage crime, specifically art theft and antiquities trafficking.
D/C Vingerhoets has a Master’s degree in Forensic Archaeology from Bournemouth University in the UK, and in addition to his financial crimes duties, he is a member of the YRP Archaeological Forensic Recovery Team, which works to apply archaeological methodology to recover human remains and evidence.