| You mean where I can go buy a cop? | | | | crime or purchased with money that came |
| No. Police auctions are not where you go | | | | from a crime is a fair target. What |
| to buy a policeman! Many people do not | | | | makes police auctions better than some |
| realize that police agencies, including | | | | other types of auctions is because of |
| local police departments, county sheriff | | | | how cheap you can get certain items. |
| departments, as well as state and | | | | Many times, goods such as cars, |
| federal law enforcement agencies end up | | | | especially abandoned ones, are literally |
| with a lot of confiscated, lost, or | | | | auctioned off for a couple hundred |
| abandoned property. Police departments | | | | dollars. |
| across America also collect all types of | | | | City police departments also conduct |
| assets and periodically hold auctions | | | | public bicycle/property auctions as well |
| for them to be sold. Almost every | | | | as abandoned vehicle auctions. They will |
| state, as well as the U.S. federal | | | | also sell miscellaneous items (small |
| government, have police seizure laws | | | | electronics, computer equipment, |
| that empower a law enforcement agency to | | | | household items, cell phones, automobile |
| seize these property assets that have | | | | accessories and a whole slew of other |
| either been used in the commission of a | | | | items). These auctions will be conducted |
| crime, or have been purchased with money | | | | on either the Internet and/or LIVE in |
| that was received through the commission | | | | person to interested bidders. |
| of a crime. Not all items, though are | | | | When most people think about police |
| seized. Sometimes items are acquired by | | | | impound car auctions they believe those |
| police department because of being | | | | cars were once owned by a drug dealer or |
| abandoned. Sometimes also, police | | | | murderer, but that isn't always the |
| surplus vehicles are sold. | | | | case. A good number of the cars that you |
| You might be asking yourself, "What | | | | will hit upon at a police impound car |
| types of things can I get at a police | | | | auction are those which have been |
| auction?" The answer is anything you | | | | confiscated because of non-payment of |
| can think of, and it has probably been | | | | loans and from businesses involved in |
| seized or abandoned (or even surplused). | | | | fraud. A result of all this is that |
| Cars, jewelry, planes, boats, furs, | | | | many of the cars are nearly new or in |
| homes, anything that has been used in a | | | | incredibly good condition. |