Do you think this is evidence and should be handed in to a police station?

[NotyourMummynotyourmilk]

This morning I found the photo page of someone’s passport on the pavement, it is current. No one would discard their own ID surely.

I picked it up (in a gloved hand) and carried on my walk, inventing scenarios in my head of what could have happened. My best conclusion is a DV case of a man ripping the passport up to prevent his partner travelling or leaving him.
Should I hand it in, it may be a burglary/robbery and be covered in prints.

Dunno about evidence but yes, hand it in the same way you would a whole passport.

Yes definitely hand it in. The police will contact the person.

If you can find an open police station, yes, hand it in. You could also phone the passport office for advice.

I doubt the police will do much with it TBH, but you never know!

Post it to the Passport Office. It isn't evidence, Inspector Clouseau.

Jesus 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Blimey Jessica Fletcher, there's a helluva lot of extrapolation going on. I wouldn't worrybaboit the integrity of the 'evidence' though

Its nothing to do with DV

Just hand t in or try to contact the owner on FB.

How can you say that so confidently @Chethang

I contacted the police about a passport that was found. They said I could hand it in to them, but all they do is send to the passport office.

By that token literally anything found on the floor you have no context for could be wildly construed as 'evidence' of something surely . Sounds a fun thing to do actually OP, I might start concocting back stories each time I see an errant glove/dummy/shopping list, to pass the walk in the cold quicker .
It is nice that you care but people do all sorts, just hand it it at a station or post it to the passport office and they'll sort it. Don't expect the police to care a great deal about it as a bit of 'evidence though.

Love that your hand was gloved when you picked it up but yes, hand it in when you’re next near a police station.

wahhhhh that’s amazing OP. Yes take it to the police. They’ll put it in lost property and forget about it. You can carry on playing out miss marple fantasies

People photocopy their passports for all kinds of different reasons. Anyone who has ever lived abroad, is married to a foreigner or who has ever applied for a work visa for another country needs to photocopy their passport. I've had to photocopy my passport over a dozen times and have a copy of my husbands for a visa appointment next week.

But I'm loving the "evidence" scenarios

It's probably just part of someone's job/DBS application.

Or someone dropped it....

I don't think the OP is saying she found a photocopy of the photo page of someone's passport, but the actual photo page of a current passport that had been ripped out -- hence her worry that the person was involved in some form of coercive situation. It's not exactly an ordinary thing to do.

Police do not take lost property anymore.

I think the OP is saying it’s literally the actual page ripped out of a passport, not just a photocopy - surely she’d know the difference. That’s not like a glove or a scarf that you might drop by accident. It’s not even like keys or a credit card or a whole passport that you’d carry around and could be dropped. I can’t think of any reasonable explanation for why that would happen.

OP, you're going to be in soooo much trouble when the police find out what you did to the evidence! You should have left it exactly where it was and drawn a chalk line around it so you didn't disturb the scene of the crime. This is why the police hate amateur detectives, you ScoobyDoo wannabes make their job so much harder with your meddling. Too late now of course but next time just call it in and wait for the experts to come and deal with it.

It's probably just someone has thrown away their expired passport and wanted to take out the sensitive information but I like the conspiracy theories

It's probably someone who thought their passport photo was really, really shit.

Jesus - don't people take comprehension lessons at school any more? The OP says it's CURRENT. The OP says it is the ORIGINAL page, not a photocopy!

Hand it in if you can find a Police station. Forget about it.

I've previously found driving licences and credit cards. If I've managed to contact the owner it's always been because a handbag/ purse/ wallet was stolen and the thief has ditched what they don't want. I'd say that's the most likely scenario - which yes might mean they've taken the rest of the passport to use in some way. Or someone's passport was falling apart and they dropped part of it.

I ran from my car to my solicitors yesterday to take some paperwork for my house sale. In the envelope there was a copy of my passport. I hope it didn't fall out!

Surely just someone doing a not very secure disposal of an expired passport? So ripping it up but not doing it vigorously enough