What is a police property check?
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What is a police property check?
I live in a college apartment with 3 other roommates. While we were sleeping police entered our home through an unlocked door. I woke up and found 4 officers in my living room. I asked them what they were doing and they said we had noise complaints from the night before. When I asked if they had a warrant they said it was a police property check and since the door wasn’t locked they had the right to enter. My landlord had not been notified of this, nor did any of us let them in.
Asked on October 11, 2011 under Criminal Law, New York
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Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
A police property check from what you have written is a situation where law enforcement enters a home under the belief that a criminal act has occured or in the belief that there may be the need to protect the occupants of the unit entered.
The property check is a term where law enforcement simply check the condition of the contents of the unit thay entered to make sure that nothing is amiss. The explanation as to why the officers entered your rental from the prior night does not make a lot of sense justifying their entry into the unit the following night.
You might want to make a call to the police department to complain about what happened.
Good luck.
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