A. Officers are often the first persons in contact with these persons, and typically place them into a police vehicle and transport them to the police station, another law enforcement agency, or to a facility.

B. A person in custody could introduce valuable personal property, or alternatively, dangerous personal property, into a police vehicle or the police station.

C. Officers currently face the risk that persons in custody may bear or carry dangerous items such as syringes, weapons, objects which could be used as a weapon, or toxic or flammable substances, on their persons or otherwise accessible. An inventory separates these persons from those dangerous items.

D. An inventory of valuable personal property and dangerous personal property provides mutual protection, accountability and safeguards when such items are brought into a police vehicle or the police station. [BC 2.08.010, added by Ordinance No. 4377, 12/5/05; amended by Ordinances No. 4385, 3/20/06, Ordinance No. 4670, 12/8/15]