Furthermore the Internal Control and Compliance Manual for Tennessee Municipalities , Title 1, Chapter 4, requires policies and procedures for identification, storage, and annual inventory of high-risk sensitive property. To comply with state statutes and to alleviate the responsibility for safeguarding property not needed as evidence, the director of police should ensure the annual inventory and destruction of applicable seized drugs and weapons, as set forth in Tennessee Code Annotated , is done. In addition, the director of police should ensure that items held as evidence are adequately labeled, stored, and safeguarded. The director of police will request CIP funding to allow the construction of a property and evidence storage facility at an offsite location. Response is the same as that of the director of police.
Response is the same as that of the director of police.
The police department seized weapons and drugs that were used or possessed in violation of law. The property was turned over to the property room for custody and safekeeping. Periodically, property room personnel would identify contraband no longer needed for evidence, and petition the court to destroy that property. With court approval, property room personnel would accumulate the named property and deliver it to be disposed of in accordance with state law. However, at the time that property was actually destroyed, there was no independent reconciliation between the destruction order and the property that was actually destroyed.