Property/Evidence Management Control

The primary duty of this area is maintaining the physical integrity and control of evidentiary items in the custody of the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office.

The Sheriff’s Office has four full-time Evidence Control Specialists working in the Property room. Their main objective is:

• Provide safe and physical integrity of property and evidence items for temporary and permanent custody
• Maintain a continuous permanent record showing a chain-of-custody signature log of all items under Property Room control.

• The control, transmission, and receipt of evidentiary items required for forensic analysis by the Washington State Crime Laboratory entities.
• The introduction of evidentiary items into Superior and District Courts.
• The placement of legal items for public auction for those items that are unclaimed or seized by competent authority.
• To have direct contact with individuals about property that is authorized to be returned.
• To disposes of all evidentiary/property items upon completion of criminal court proceedings when authorized by competent authority.