18. Inventories

Question 1

Name the two types of inventories

Answer 1

Booking inventory, and vehicle inventory

Question 2

Reasons why you perform a booking inventory

Answer 2

Preserve his property, while he is held at the station, protect the police from disputes over, lost, stolen, or returned property, prevent escape self injury, or harm to others in the station

Question 3

Article 14 and the fourth amendment require that a booking inventory require:

Answer 3

Lawful custody, written procedures, inspection, and conforms to policy.

Question 4

The routine inventory is justified, whenever a detainee

Answer 4

Is booked for any Crime

Question 5

Protective custody

Answer 5

Justifies an inventory any time in person is held at the station

Question 6

Inventory policy

Answer 6

Police department must have a policy, the policy of the place of detention controls (an arrest involves multiple agencies officers are obligated to follow the booking policy of the agency that controls the lock up), the policy should allow officers to open locked containers.

Question 7

Inventory policy concerning medication

Answer 7

Title, 2 of the Americans with disability act, requires that the department provide medication to individuals in their custody who request it and needed. The policy should require that any medication identified.

Question 8

Booking inventory must not

Answer 8

 be a pretext for an investigatory search

Question 9

Booking policy must be submitted in court

Answer 9

Commonwealth versus Brinson far as the prosecutors produce the policy. This enables a court to assess whether officers performed a manner consistent with their policy.

Question 10

Third-party claims to property

Answer 10

Follow inventory policy to resolve claims of detain property

Question 11

Inventory of motor vehicles justification

Answer 11

A vehicle inventory is conducted for essentially the same reasons as a booking inventory. Protect vehicles and it’s contents, protect the police and tow companies from false claims, protect the public and police from dangerous items that might be left in the vehicle.

Question 12

Inventory of motor vehicles constitutional requirements

Answer 12

Article 14 and the fourth amendment require, the vehicle must be lawfully, impounded by police, inventory procedures, must be in writing, the inventory procedure must conform to policy. It must not become a pre-for an investigative search.

Question 13

Vehicle lawfully impounded

Answer 13

The inventory must be conducted when officers on scene decide to tow the vehicle, impoundment does not occur, unless police are present, police may not delay, their impoundment decision pending the results of their inventory, officer should communicate their decision to impound before the inventory, as long as police legitimately must tow the vehicle the inventory is proper, regardless of the officers expectations that their inventory will reveal evidence.

Question 14

Reasonable alternatives to impounding and towing a vehicle

Answer 14

Allowing a competent alternative operator to legally drive the vehicle from the scene, leaving a vehicle, lawfully parked at the location where Police encountered it

Question 15

Vehicle lawfully parked

Answer 15

The vehicle is secure and legally parked in a public or private location

Question 16

Vehicle lawfully parked after police stop and risk of theft

Answer 16

If the vehicle is lawfully parked, following a police stop, and there is no alternative operator the vehicle should still be towed if officers determined, there is a risk of theft or vandalism at that location

Question 17

Do not tow a vehicle if lawfully parked before police stop

Answer 17

Even if risk or theft page 18–7

Question 18

Authorized motor vehicle impoundment

Answer 18

Driver arrested for operating under the influence of oui, 12 hour impoundment when the arrested motorist refuses the breathalyzer or blood test. Melanie‘s law. Vehicle abandoned or trespassing on private property. Vehicle is illegally parked. Vehicle disabled and unsafe. Vehicle may not be lawfully operated. 

Question 19

Motor vehicle impoundment other situations

Answer 19

A vehicle in other situation, where the driver can no longer operate, and there is no alternative operator or the vehicle is not lawfully parked

Question 20

Rental vehicle considerations

Answer 20

Rental vehicles may not be impounded solely on the basis of an unauthorized operator

Question 21

Rental company notifications

Answer 21

In certain situations, Police may notify a rental company in impound their vehicle at the direction of their representative upon encountering an unauthorized operator. Officer’s should notify the rental company and impound the vehicle at the companies request if one of the following applies:

Expired rental agreement

Unauthorized operator does not have a driver’s license

The driver is arrested; officers are unable to determine whether the authorized operator gave permission to the current driver

Question 22

Scope of vehicle inventory

Answer 22

The inventory must take place at the scene before the car is towed or right after the car arrives at the tow lot

Question 23

Vehicle inventory and policy

Answer 23

The inventory must be conducted in accordance with written policy. This is an administrative procedure. The best practice is to conduct an inventory, the same way every time.

Question 24

Typical inventory inspection

Answer 24

Exterior vehicle for signs of damage, the passenger compartment, including the glove box, the trunk. Officers must examine any place for personal property, might be kept including hides.

Question 25

Closed or open containers vehicle inventory

Answer 25

Officers must examine the contents of any closed or open containers that might hold personal property. Lock containers absent. A key combination for an emergency officer should obtain a search warrant to open a locked container.

Question 26

Mass tow of vehicles

Answer 26

When multiple vehicles are towed at events or during snow, emergencies, department policy, should authorize an alternative procedure

For example, looking into passenger compartment from outside and noting any obvious expensive items and supplement that on a report

Question 27

Inventory should not involve areas where motorists is unlikely to store personal property

Answer 27

Air vents prying the cover off dashboard looking inside, crumpled Dunkin’ Donuts bag in the cargo area of the van inconsistent with the main purpose of an inventory

Question 28

Is a cannine inconsistent with mv inventory?

Answer 28

Yes, use of drug sniffing canine was totally inconsistent with the purpose of an inventory

Question 29

A properly performed inventory may

Answer 29

Transform into a search for evidence under the motor vehicle exception!