Property 2

Question 1

Responsibilities of the Officer who seized the property

Answer 1

Officer must give the Property to the appropriate Property Officer unless the Property is being:

• Destroyed
• returned
• Disposed of
• Required during questioning

Must Also complete and issue a property receipt

Question 2

Various ways in completing a Property Receipt

Answer 2

should be issued, if possible, at the scene and in the presence of the relevant person

• Q-Prime: Property Receipt
• Field Property Receipt
• Notebook Entry if Field Property Receipt not available

Question 3

PPRA 686 how can an Officer lawfully come into possession of property

Answer 3

• Seized
• Found by someone else other than a Police Officer as lost property
• Found by Police in the course of their duty

Question 4

Ways of disposal of Property

Answer 4

• destruction
• donation to a charitable body
• appropriation for use of the Service or another government department
• auction
• sale by tender only on a specific court order
• returning to the owner

Question 5

How to Lodge Property

Answer 5

• Where members are required to lodge property they should after issuing a property receipt:
• generate ‘Property Receipt’ from the QPRIME entry
• place the property in a suitable property bag;

seek advice from the officer in charge of the property point on the most suitable method of containing or wrapping the property; and hand the property to the relevant property officer or lodge the property at a property point

Question 6

Does the property receipt require an Officer to write where the object was located.

Answer 6

No