Wallets with money, mobile phones and backpacks. These are some of the objects lost during the Arrecife Carnival that the Local Police has recovered and that can be claimed by their owners in police stations.
As the head of the Local Police of Arrecife, José Antonio Lasso, explained to La Voz, the recovered objects amount to about twenty and most have been handed over by citizens. "There are also others that are found by the cleaning staff or that are collected by the agents themselves," he said.
Regarding the wallets, the head of the Local Police of Arrecife has stated that "people usually hand them over with money." In fact, he detailed that, during these Carnival days, a citizen handed them a wallet with around 100 euros inside. "And shortly after the owner appeared, who could also be fully identified, because he was carrying the documentation in the wallet," he pointed out.
"The things that they usually bring here are this type of things: wallets, documentation, mobiles, keys... If people find something different or bigger, they usually call us to pick it up and we bring it to lost property. Sometimes it may be that a bicycle stays in a place for several days and the owner thinks that he has lost it, but then he just didn't remember where he had left it. That has happened to us," he added.
Objects that can be returned to the person who handed them over after two years
As explained by the head of the Local Police of Arrecife, although there are objects such as high-end mobile phones that "are usually claimed quickly", there are many others that are not claimed.
"There are objects that are not claimed, partly due to the citizen's lack of knowledge. It is true that there are many objects that are lost and that whoever finds them does not hand them over, some that are believed to be lost and that have not really been lost, but have been moved from place by someone, but when someone loses something, what you have to do is first ask in lost property, because there are many that are handed over and your object may be there," he pointed out.
In this regard, according to José Antonio Lasso, the objects are kept "for two years" and, from there, if the owner has not appeared, some are destroyed, such as mobile phones, but others are given to the person who handed them over.
"If the object has material value, you have the right to have it delivered if the owner has not been interested in it within two years. For example, if a person finds a wallet with 200 euros, if it brings documentation, the owner is immediately located, but if there is no way to locate him and the person who lost it does not appear to claim it, the person who handed it over has the right to be given the 200 euros after two years," he concluded.
