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Inventory Search

• This is not a search for evidence related to criminality but instead is

an administrative search to protect the person’s property and to

protect law enforcement generally and from false claims related to

property.

• Must be supported by agency policy and limits of search controlled
by policy.

• Inventory searches must be done any time law enforcement directs

the towing or seizure of a vehicle, not just in incidents of criminal

acts.

• Conduct and document in accord with agency policy.

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