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