freepo expressed precisely :
> On May 9, 9:38 pm, Baldoni wrote:
>> freepo explained :
>>
>>> When you find something, and hand it in to the police. If after 3
>>> months no one has claimed the item, the finder can claim it back from
>>> the police.
>>
>>> Is the above staement correct?
>>
>> I have been led to believe this is correct.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Are there any exceptions? A million pounds, a Stradivarius, etc
>>> Who does the item belong to after the finder has reclaimed it from the
>>> police?
>>
>>> cheers
>>
>> The police tend to keep hold of stuff that they take off people.
>> Jackets, trainers, jewellry, money and other clothing. I went to the
>> police station one time and asked them to give me my claw hammer back,
>> which they did. A WPC said to me "We don't normally get people asking
>> for stuff back."
>>
>> --
>> Baldoni
>
> Which raises a good point, what safe guards are in place to stop the
> police keeping the items themselves and telling the finder
> "Oh we had Joe Bloggs came in to claim that a month ago"? How can the
> finder obtain the details of the person who claimed the item, to
> verify that it was true?
I was in custody one time and I know that they tampered with my
property. There were car keys in the bag which I did not have on my
person when I was arrested.
Another stunt they may pull is to say that something has been moved to
their HQ. They can make it that hard to get something back that a
person just gives up. A person might find themselves asking for PC X
and find out he is not on duty, if the bugger ever existed in the first
place.
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Baldoni
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