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Evidence Log - Volume 1997 Number 1
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Storing Odd Shaped
Items of Evidence
By Officer Steve
Berdrow
Burbank Police Department
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At the Burbank Police Department, our Property Section had
a problem storing certain oddly shaped items, such as baseball bats, steering
wheel locks, hockey sticks, bolt cutters, etceteras, ad infinitum.
We would stack them up in a comer, or put them in a barrel, but trying
to find a specific item was very difficult.
 To
correct this situation, we came up with the idea of hanging these long
and narrow items from peg board. Not just any peg board would be
sturdy enough, however. We designed a heavy duty system using removable
3/4" hardwood dowels inserted at a 15' angle into a 4' x 8' backboard.  The
angle holds the items against the backboard, even during an earthquake.
The hard card copy of our Evidence Tag, with Bar Code
affixed, is attached to the item with a wire tie. Now we are able
to neatly hang these items either directly from the pegs, or by using heavy
duty rubber bands. And we can easily find any item we're looking
for.
Problem solved! 
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Copyright © 1997 International
Association for Property and Evidence, Inc.
Reprinted from the Evidence Log,
Volume 1997, Number 1, Page 6
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