it is not the taxi driver keeping the found items, normally
another pax enter your taxi and quietly keep the found items.
worst: when my former company was using comfort taxi voucher i
lost one unused one inside a comfort taxi. an unknown lady went to
use it. before that, comfort assured my ex-company that we would
not be billed for that voucher, in the end they still bill us. so i
offer to pay for it (less than $10) BUT my former boss insisted i
make a police report which i did. but i told the inspector no need
to investigate lar, there wont be finger print on the paper
what.
this is a true story but dont ask me which NPP this happened. a
taxi driver found some M'sia currency (RM$500) and some S'pore
currency (not much) in his taxi. he handed over the money to the
police at the NPP. the policeman on duty took the money for
himself.
the next day when this policeman was not on duty the taxi driver
came back to ask about the matter, the supervisor of that NPP was
shocked. so no choice the matter had to be reported. and later it
was discovered that the policeman who took the money spent it. and
they could not come up with RM$500 to replace the found items.
Singapore money easier to replace.
so the matter was investigated. but i dont know what happened to
the policeman who took the money for himself. maybe kena charged
under criminal breach of trust as an agent - max punishment is life
or ten years imprisonment.
moral of the story: honesty is the best policy.
