Sorry to snipe at the police again - but....well, remember the days when, if you found money or a wallet in the street, you were encouraged to hand it in to the police?
Well, they don't want you to anymore.
Between 1st Jan and 10th April, Surrey police have taken in the following items, all dutifully handed in by honest citizens, in West Surrey.
114 wallets, purses and bank cards,
31 handbags/cases,
49 phones,
27 jewellery items,
22 passports,
8 laptops,
70 bikes,
8 cameras,
17 driving licences,
10 watches,
2 iPods,
8 tool boxes - plus sundry money items.
If you had lost any one of those items and were able to recover it, because some kind person had handed it in - how happy and pleased you'd be. Well, the Surrey police don't want you to hand in things you find because they say it isn't their job or responsibility to handle this sort of stuff. Instead, they encourage you to "retain property rather than deposit it at a police station." What that means is keep it. It's yours. Next time you lose your phone or wallet, there's no point in going to see if it's been handed in - it will have been "retained" by whoever found it!
Doesn't it make you wonder where we are all going?
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