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14C.20.010 Maintenance of Property/Evidence Division.

City Code Section
  1. The Portland Police Bureau will maintain a property/evidence division which will keep the following:
  2. A.  Property of all persons arrested by Portland Police and incarcerated in a Multnomah County Jail, except any personal items kept at the jailer’s discretion for the prisoners;
  3. B.  Evidence seized by officers or other persons in the process of making an arrest; and
  4. C.  Contraband, illegal items, or miscellaneous property which comes into possession of members of the Portland Police Bureau.
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