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Ask Joe...Each month, IAPE's primary instructor and Executive Director, Joe Latta, answers one of your questions pertaining to your everyday property and evidence room questions.
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Dear Joe,
I was recently assigned to the Property Room, replacing a 30-year veteran property officer who was not a neat freak as you may surmise by viewing the photograph on how knives and other sharps were stored.
Do you have any recommendations on how to store knives and other type of bladed weapons?
Thank You,
SK
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Dear SK,
This one is easy. I just conducted an audit and observed one of the better solutions. The photo to the right was constructed of plywood around the dimension of the typical knife box (12.5" x 3.5" x 2").
In this scheme, all of the boxes are in case order. Starting with the oldest box being stored on the top shelf (far left) and storing across the top shelf and then moving down to the next shelf (far left side). As you fill across the shelf and move to the right, the new knife box is always (100% of the time) at the end of the train. In lieu of having a dozen or more specific shelf locations, the entire rack in referred to as “Knives”. During the year, as items are purged the knives boxes are compressed (back shifted) keeping all the boxes in case order. Again, 100% of the time, the oldest in on the top left while the newest is on the bottom right. If for some reason, your computer system is down and someone needs this item, do you know where to look!
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Thank you,
Joe Latta
Executive Director
International Association for Property and Evidence
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Celebrating our 30th Anniversary with you by hosting 30 classes
across the country in 2023!
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World Class Training in “Best-Practices” For
Evidence & Property Room Management
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We offer dozens of classes per year across the U.S. and Canada, taught by current and former law enforcement officials with extensive real-world experience in management of property and evidence. This two-day course is ideal for those responsible for, or actively involved in, the operation, supervision or management of a Property and Evidence Unit. All training topics address best business practices and professional standards.
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July
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October
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The Full online course class option is a great choice if you want much of the same training as the Live classes but without the travel and time away from the department. The IAPE Property and Evidence Management video Course is approximately 14 hours in length and was prepared by Law Enforcement Personnel for Law Enforcement Personnel. Completion of the course meets the training requirements for becoming a Certified Property and Evidence Specialist (CPES).
*Registration to any 2-Day class now includes the digital download of
"Property and Evidence By The Book" 2nd Edition.
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COMMENTARY:
ARE YOU READY FOR THIS RECENT TREND?
During the past thirty years IAPE has continuously reported new trends that may have an impact on Property Rooms. Looking back over the year, we have dealt with evidence items new to our environment, such as the storing of chemical mace, 8 track tape decks, iPod, cell phones, computers, electric scooters, grow houses, lithium batteries, large TV’s, meth, pills, fentanyl, anthrax, catalytic converters, and the list goes on.
Today because of ever-increasing property crimes in our communities and the ability of selling on line and charging laws, there has been an explosion of these items proliferating our Property Room. Over the last several months, there have been numerous multiple million-dollar seizures across the country. Knowing the trend may be coming your way, do you have any contingency plans if you were to received truckloads of Stuff?
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CHP arrests 40 connected to $150 million cargo theft ring
May 8, 2023
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) recently charged dozens of people in connection with a large-scale cargo theft scheme following a year-long investigation
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On May 5, officials announced that CHP’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force (ORCTF) and CHP’s Cargo Theft Interdiction Program conducted a statewide enforcement operation called “Operation Overloaded” targeting individuals taking part in a cargo theft scheme believed to be responsible for $150 million in stolen goods from more than 200 cargo loads.
As part of the operation, CHP arrested 40 people and recovered over $50 million in stolen merchandise and 20 stolen cargo trailers. CHP also seized several vehicles, multiple firearms, including ghost guns, over $550,000, and 13 gold bars.CHP says that the suspects involved are facing several felony charges involving conspiracy to commit grand theft, grand theft of cargo, vehicle theft, and identity theft.
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The investigation began in March 2022 and involved “50 targeted operations involving multiple surveillance teams, undercover officers, arrests, and the authoring and serving of several search warrants.”
“This large-scale enforcement operation is part of CHP’s everyday work to keep our residents, communities, and businesses safe. I’m grateful for all the men and women who helped shut down this criminal operation and get dangerous firearms and stolen merchandise off our streets,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom.
“This team has worked tirelessly to unravel this complex case. I continue to be impressed by the dedication and commitment put forth daily by our officers and investigators. Their efforts help make California a safer place to live and work,” said CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee.
CHP says that more arrests are expected in connection with the cargo theft operation.
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Police: $7.5M of stolen goods recovered, massive retail fencing operation uncovered
May 13, 2022
WILMETTE, Ill. (WLS) -- Wilmette police have more than 270,000 items stored pending trial in floor to ceiling palettes, stolen goods including over the counter medication, beauty products and more recovered from a retail theft distribution ring that spans from Chicago to both coasts.
The year-long investigation began in Wilmette with what police initially thought was a simple retail theft, over the counter medication stolen from a local drug store. Officers said they discovered where the medication was being illegally fenced.
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"Which then led us to physical surveillance, and we were able to determine that this was a much larger operation than we originally anticipated," said Kyle Murphy, Village of Wilmette police chief.
Murphy's team working with Chicago police, Illinois State Police, Shorewood police, even federal Homeland Security Investigators and uncovered what they say was a massive retail theft operation in Chicago and the suburbs.
"The estimates are during the course of this year-long investigation, this case is probably valued at somewhere in the neighborhood of about $40 million worth of stolen merchandise," Murphy said.
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The hundreds of thousands of items recovered are worth an estimated $7.5 million, Murphy said. The rest were shipped and sold online police say to people and third party distributors as far as California and New York.
"They remove all the identifying information from the retailers, they might even adjust the expiration dates on those items and then they ship them out to various locations where they're then resold on the online marketplaces," Murphy said.
Eight people were arrested; five from the Chicago area, three from California.
Those defendants are facing theft, money laundering and financial charges.
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38,000 pounds of fireworks seized, 2 arrested in San Jose storage facility fire
June 30, 2023
San Jose police seized 38,000 pounds of illegal fireworks and arrested two men in connection to a large fire that destroyed a building at a Public Storage facility earlier this month, according to SJPD.
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Anthony Dasilva, 45, and Nathaniel Valassis, 25, both of San Jose, were arrested Thursday and booked into Santa Clara County jail on various charges, including distribution and sale of illegal fireworks, police said.
The June 14 fire at the storage facility at 88 Blossom Hill Road in San Jose was caused by multiple illegal fireworks igniting in a storage unit, according to initial reports, police said. The blaze destroyed the entire building and everything stored inside.
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During the fire investigation and subsequent arson probe over the next two weeks, police seized nearly 20 tons of illegal fireworks at the storage facility, police said.
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Got a Job? Need a Job?
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Become a Certified Evidence Specialist
Along with the IAPE's extensive evidence training courses, the IAPE offers our members the opportunity to become Certified Property and Evidence Specialists.
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