Originally Posted by call100:
“The law in Scotland is different. You could be required to hand the property back for 12 months after you have been given it by the Police.
Not withstanding that, All UK police forces have sales of unclaimed property. That is property handed in but then not claimed by either owner or finder. When you hand something in, if you wish to claim it, you have to go and physically collect it after the specified time. If you do not, it ends up in one of those sales.
There are rules that determine your rights to keep. The property must be found on public property and must have been lost (not stolen and dumped) to name but two.
Your post doesn't make sense. If you lost something, didn't report it to the Police and did not claim it. You would have no case to hit them with for selling your unclaimed property.
As I said. I'm happy for anyone to disagree and have their own beliefs. However erroneous those beliefs may be..
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“The law in Scotland is different. You could be required to hand the property back for 12 months after you have been given it by the Police.
Not withstanding that, All UK police forces have sales of unclaimed property. That is property handed in but then not claimed by either owner or finder. When you hand something in, if you wish to claim it, you have to go and physically collect it after the specified time. If you do not, it ends up in one of those sales.
There are rules that determine your rights to keep. The property must be found on public property and must have been lost (not stolen and dumped) to name but two.
Your post doesn't make sense. If you lost something, didn't report it to the Police and did not claim it. You would have no case to hit them with for selling your unclaimed property.
As I said. I'm happy for anyone to disagree and have their own beliefs. However erroneous those beliefs may be..
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Sorry my post wasn't aimed at you, rather at neo_wales and slightly in jest, I just forgot the smiley
. I hand loads of lost property into the police and rarely claim any of it after the wait period has elapsed (except money) so I have 'form' for this sort of thing.
Originally Posted by neo_wales:
“If an insurance claim was made then the phone is not yours, its the insurance company. Forget about it, its not worth wasting more money.”
“If an insurance claim was made then the phone is not yours, its the insurance company. Forget about it, its not worth wasting more money.”
Originally Posted by neo_wales:
“He can keep it...until the rightful owners, the insurance company ask for it back, its simply not his phone. Possession ain't nine tenths of the law anymore.”
“He can keep it...until the rightful owners, the insurance company ask for it back, its simply not his phone. Possession ain't nine tenths of the law anymore.”
If neo_wales believes those statements above to be true, then he should nip down to his local police station and acquaint him/herself with the legal facts. If he thinks that by someone not claiming his property (insurance company or him or otherwise) after it has been handed into the police station and the wait period has elapsed then it is his/the insurers then he is mistaken. However if he was 100% sure that it was still his/the insurers (if unclaimed after the wait period has elapsed) then he could have a legal case against the police force that sold his unclaimed property at auction
. I hadn't read your post about Scotland and was unaware of the 1 year rule up there. Should have picked a different Police force. I handed in a mobile about three weeks ago in the West End of London. The charming Met Police officer who I handed it in to at the station asked me as he was filling out the paperwork if I wanted it back if it was unclaimed? I said I didn't and he agreed that it wasn't the worlds greatest phone (a bottom of the range Samsung) that was missing the back cover. He did ask if I might want the battery back given I have a Samsung myself, but I said I was happy for it all to be disposed of. I think he mentioned they get sent for recycling.
