u/cookj1232

It’s becoming more and more common in my force that officers are responding to an RTC and instead of recovering the vehicles just leaving them smashed up at the side of the road with some police tape on it.

When I was in tutorship I remember being given some directive by a traffic cop that we can’t do this as by leaving it with some police tape on is the police claiming responsibility for it and instead if we go to an RTC, and the owner isn’t getting it recovered themselves there and then, then we have the power to get the vehicle recovered.

What legislation would this be under so I can be confident with the law I use to call recovery? I’m fed up with seeing other cops just chuck some tape on a car and leave it there for weeks.