The police are able to claim some of the confiscated money and assets back to reinvest into policing, through an incentive scheme.
During the premier of the new television programme Homeland Security USA on ABC this week, border officers flung open doors, responded to radiation alerts, drew their weapons, questioned suspects, tracked illegal immigrants through the desert, confiscated various illicit drugs and narcotics, and on and on and on.
Father Casey's passions run to chain smoking and coaching soccer, and if, leafing through the boys' confiscated comic, he's more amused than appalled to come upon a depiction of himself and Sister Assumpta in flagrante, he's careful not to let the shaken (and, let it be said, apparently humorless) nun see his reaction.
Periodically, the police would sweep through the cities confiscating all the goods hawkers were trying to sell.
In the Kohan Froshi market, a sprawling open-air bazaar in downtown Kabul, teams of police officers made morning raids through the stalls, confiscating hundreds of uniforms, boots, badges, insignia and other military and police items, said Gen. Mohammad Ayoub Salangi, the police chief of Kabul Province.
The police confiscated the bomb.
The Treasury confiscated the coin and an investigation was launched.
The Army confiscated the paper after his arrest.
The cops confiscated the fliers.
The Germans confiscated the ship's cargo of food.
