This promising headline appears on the KTRK-13 site tonight:
They must be using Chronicle headline writers, because the story doesn’t quite match:
It could be up to a year before the new property room is fully functional. It could take that long to transfer the some 500,000 pieces of evidence that are currently stored in the old property room. Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt calls it an investment and a giant step forward for law enforcement.
It is a brand new $13 million state of the art property room with all of the bells and whistles, and a stark contrast to the outdated, dilapidated old building the Houston Police Department has been using to store evidence since the late 1970s.
Here’s hoping the transition goes quickly and smoothly. The community needs to be able to count on HPD to handle evidence reliably.
