Seized & Found Property Management
KIM Property Management System (PMS) is an application designed to help you effectively manage all items associated with seized and found property and lost reports.
As crime increases and police forces detect more crimes so the volume of physical evidence seized rises in proportion. One of the real issues especially in a pro-active police force is how the high volume of exhibits or goods seized for examination are stored and managed until case closure.
Even then some items have to be kept for many years whilst an offender is in prison. Not only is space precious (and expensive) but the risk of mismanaging the evidence could result in a lost case at court with many man-hours wasted and a loss of public confidence.
Can you easily prove in any subsequent audit how you have correctly disposed of every item?
How do you negate claims that the goods you seized have been damaged by you and are now worthless?
The police are faced with increasing storage problems for high risk items such as drugs and firearms. New powers to seize assets that may represent the proceeds of crime exacerbate the storage problem until a court decides on the case.
Lost and Found property is a particular problem because items lost in one area may be handed in or reported to another station some distance away.
These are the key issues and the management of property can only be the Cinderella of police work for so long before a problem turns the spotlight on.