The Hawthorne Police Department has formed an alliance with an internet auction site to dispose of goods that are no longer required to be held in the agency's Property/Evidence room. Items from the Property/Evidence room's inventory, including; jewelry, audio and video equipment, computer equipment and bicycles are available for bids at www.PropertyRoom.com. This online auction service is available to the general public and is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
As a part of PropertyRoom.com's service, a registration database called StealitBack.com helps users recover stolen property by matching serial numbers on stolen property with those in PropertyRoom.com's database. By cross-referencing the numbers, PropertyRoom.com determines if an item was reported stolen and returns it to the appropriate police agency.
