I have recently purchased a liberty gun safe from an estate sale, went to register the safe in my name over the phone. Customer service told me that I needed to “have law enforcement come out and write a statement stating the safe is in your possession and has not been reported stolen on their letterhead or with a business card” is this something local police do iv never heard of anything like this?
Is this a normal thing officers do?
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Nope, not a police function. We would not do that.
You have to register a safe? With who?
We would not do that.
I have not been involved with it but I have heard of this when it comes to getting a code from the company. Warranty seems weird but code for the old dials that can’t be changed seem to be right.
Fuck no. But knowing how dispatch is, they’d probably send out the call to us anyways.
This is why you don’t buy garbage safes from garbage companies.
I’ve never heard of this but I understand why they do it. Letterhead and business card is a bit much but I’d bang out a two line report.
Buying a liberty safe is the first thing you screwed up on.
Dispatch would tell us there is an information for officer call at the location. We would go. Some officers would probably say we don’t do reports for non criminal matters.
That being said SOP states if the citizen wants a report of our contact we have to write one. Which you might get a report saying citizen asked me to check if the safe was stolen property and I said we don’t do that. But at that point it only takes 10 more seconds to run the serial in axon.
People always want to get out of writing a report. But I get sent to IA enough I ain’t taking that chance, you’re getting a report.
Definitely not a normal thing to do. That being said, I would have no issue taking a few minutes to check the S/N in NCIC and writing a letter stating the same. I’m in a small town department with a really good relationship with our residents where we provide services to the public that larger departments just couldn’t or wouldn’t accommodate.
I’ve heard of VIN verification for vehicles, but a gun safe??