Police bike auction - Thursday

It's in Leytonstone - http://www.frankgbowen.co.uk/index.html

There was one of those Pashley Guv'nors as well.

Do these police auctions still run at all?

The auction house Frank Bowen was closed last summer.

I wonder who the liquidators used to auction off assets... but more seriously, who the old clients (police forces etc.) now use for auctions?

Police Auctions

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/police-auctions/

picked up 3 bikes from bumblebee auctions in the last 10 years, viking severn valley / overbury's pioneer and a gary fisher mtb, all pretty cheap, still riding 2 of them
some good ones appear once in a while, currently there is a whyte double suss £2k new in the auction

but mostly they are cheap halfords mtb's

I'd rest more easily if I knew my bike was taking part in a police auction. Once you've had yours stolen it's like sending it into the ether.

Where does the money go that the police get from selling these bikes anyway?

There's not much money involved. Still it's better served than in some pocket of a thief.

Yeah I didn't think there was much in it. Much easier to just pocket then I guess.

The police aren't in the business of pocketing funds. They are a public service. Funds recovered from auctions etc go back into the system.

I hear that, just annoying when they're doing less and less to help people recover bikes

I don't have the best experience with police either. Most of it has been them suspecting me of stealing my own bike