Leicestershire Police has generated more than £1.5 million by selling goods seized from criminals through its online eBay shop.The force was the first in the UK to use eBay to sell assets which a court had established to have been paid for with cash generated through criminal activity, chiefly drug dealing.It opened the shop in September 2009 and has since sold approximately 6,000 items for a collective £1.5 million, including goods worth £300,000 in 2016.Every item –...
