Not really trying

The Nottinghamshire Police are feeling pleased with themselves because they sold a drug dealer’s German army surplus scout car for five grand on eBay under the Proceeds of Crime Act. They also found a few more bits and pieces whilst trying to recover the 100 grand specified in a court order. But it would have saved the taxpayer a whole lot of messing about and incidental costs if they’d just flogged off the guy’s two-hundred-grand house and given him the change.