A paramilitary task force, aimed at cracking down on organised crime, has seized almost half a million pounds in assets in just under two years.
The group, which involves the PSNI, National Crime Agency and Revenue and Customs, has also uncovered weapons and more than £230,000 worth of drugs.
One hundred arrests have been made and 66 people charged with offences.
However, the first progress report on the Executive Action Plan on Tackling Paramilitary Activity, Criminality and Organised Crime was delivered without a single political representative present, with civil servants currently managing the £50m budget.
Chief Constable George Hamilton acknowledged that the political vacuum was having an impact on crime-fighting budgets and oversight of the PSNI, with the Policing Board not having met publicly since last December.
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But he added that despite the five-year action plan including proposals to help "individuals and organisations who want to make the transition" away from paramilitarism, it did not mean the PSNI would be soft on senior figures linked to terror groups.
Asked about community workers involved in paramilitary activity, he also confirmed that some people are "community workers and people of positive influence by day and some are involved in criminality by night".
"We will engage with people who have influence for good within communities. If those people have some sort of current connection to a paramilitary group we'll never get so close to them that we can't knock their door and arrest them," he said.
"I suppose it is a grey area to some extent in that some of these people are a bit schizophrenic in their support for the peace process and their rejection of criminality, but for us it is actually very clear, if they break the law we will take them to court."
Meanwhile, the chief constable would not be drawn publicly on an assessment of the loyalist Red Hand Commando group, which is seeking to be legalised by the British government.
He said: "I'll do the right thing, act with integrity and won't be fettered by political commentary or political consequence, so if a view is asked from me on the activities of a certain group I will be giving that."
