2 X £10 pound notes together found by youngest daughter in supermarket carpark earlier this evening. Having been well ??? brought up to be honest she handed said note in at Customer Services. When she asked what would happen if note wasn't claimed she was told it would be given to charity - shouldn't the money be given to her? what happens to money found and handed in to police - if unclaimed does that go to charity?
Police forces don't accept found property anymore including cash ,wallets, mobile phones , keys,passports ....... and so on anymore unless they think it has a operational requirement i,e they think its linked to crime or its firearms or is a risk to the public its a waste of police resources ,they don't have the staff to deal with it. lost property is not a police matter apparently you have to use your own intuitive and are advised to take reasonable steps to reunite it with the rightful owner, put it on twitter. facebook put posters up !! if you think your daughter deserves the money instead of a charity if nobody claims it , don't hand it in the first place.
That's not what I've experienced. While the police don't take the item, they take your details and details of the lost property so if anyone contacts them the two people are put in touch. I've done it twice, both the same procedure. However, I wouldn't do it again. I've handed stuff in to shops and bars since then, but if I saw something in the street I wouldn't pick it up as I simply don't have time to reunite it with the owner.
South Yorkshire Police 31st September 2018 NEWS: Changes to lost property From tomorrow all police forces in England and Wales will no longer take reports of lost property. This is a national decision and with the exception of foreign ID documents (including passports), or items classed as ‘dangerous’ such as firearms, police forces in England and Wales will no longer take these reports. Lost property is not a police matter, so there is no legal requirement to report it to us. This is for lost property only, if property has been stolen this should still be reported to us. If you find any property, you should try and locate the owner yourself if possible, or hand it into the place it was found
Seems right to me - if you find summat that isn't yours and no-one claims it then charity seems the most sensible outcome
I lost my wallet (on the same day my mum broke her femur and the driveshaft broke on my car - that was a crap day!). The police gave me a website for lost property. I went to register it but the website wanted to sell all my details on to a whole host of other companies, so I thought "bo llocks" and didn't bother.
Your probably not wrong. it says there is no legal requirement it doesn't say under no circumstances etc . i presume there just trying to put people off bringing in items which as they see it is taking up there time which they believe could be better spent doing other things which they see as more important what that actually is not too sure these days cant imagine they would turn people away especially if its a valuable item such as a phone ,you're alright just keeping it and someone turns up at your door because its got a tracking app like findmyiphone. also for example cant imagine a 85 year old person jumping on Facebook and twitter to try and find the rightful owner of a wallet or some other item they have found
Asking for a friend , if someone finds something, how do they know if it’s stolen or lost? So by default should it not be handed into the Police in case it’s stolen?
I had a hell of a time at our local police station in Northants trying to get the police to take a gun off me (an air rifle that had been left in the house by a previous owner). They told me to take it into the enquiries desk in the library. I pointed out that based on previous episodes, if I were to walk down the high street and into the library with a gun, particularly given it was half term and the place was full of kids, his colleagues were as likely to shoot me as to assist me with my enquiry. They then suggested I dump it at the tip. That was when I started to get a bit shirty and eventually the copper sighed and took it off me. On the subject of handing cash in close to where it was lost though, I understand that people believe others in the chain will simply pocket it but that's not really the point is it? If we don't do the right thing because someone else might do the wrong thing then the world is soon going to be in an even more sorry state. Better to at least do our bit surely, even if we can't be sure of the benevolent actions of others.
Someone should set up a lost property site for Barnsley. Find something and list it on the site. Lose something and list that. I'm sure it could then be set to automatically share on Facebook Twitter etc
when my daughter handed the money in at the supermarket it was logged in their book and she gave them her name. I assumed that if unclaimed it would be returned to her - seems not! If the police don't handle found property there seems to be only one option if by chance you find money or valuables...….keep them.
if anyone was at a Supermarket yesterday and er lost some money p.m. me and I'll give name of store and where money found - and will go 50/50 on this!
I thought so too, @Red-Taff, but that's secondary to the point I was trying to make. I have no doubt your daughter did the right thing, regardless of what happens next. I appreciate that if someone hands in cash then they can't be sure that it will reach its rightful owner but if they keep it then they can be sure that it won't.
Clearly there isn't always an obvious place and in the absence of police help or any suitable avenue to reunite the cash with its owner then I'd probably be inclined to donate it to charity. But in cases such as the one you described, a supermarket car park, the appropriate course of action seems straightforward enough, as your daughter laudably demonstrated.
it's an odd situation - if someone loses a lot of money there is nowhere to actually report this loss - and if someone finds the money there isn't the facility for the money to be returned. The finder has two options - pocket the money or give it to charity. (Had the money been returned to my daughter by the supermarket she would have given it to a charity of her choosing.)
