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Author	Torran_Toi
Comment	If you just jumped into a taxi off the street then it should have been a hackney. There is not just one hackney mob though. You have Glasgow Taxis (which is a modern rebrand of the old TOA), then you have some hackneys on the ranks from Hampden and Network. On top of that, a significant number of hackney drivers don't attach themselves to any company and are just self employed guys working without a radio (ie: one man bands). All that doesn't actually matter. Per licence conditions, all lost property is supposed to get handed into a police station if we can't get contact with the passenger. It can be absolutely any station. We just drop it into whatever one is most convenient to us. It all gets centralized eventually. I don't know how often the police send lost property to the hub, but I'd imagine once a week. The lost property hub is on Saltmarket. Its the wee building on the corner of Saltmarket and Jocelyn Square (in front of the High court, opposite corner to Billy Bislands bike shop). *** Worth pointing out at this stage, that most of the stuff in the wallet won't get returned to you. The police WILL destroy bank cards when they get handed in and WILL NOT return driving licences or passports to you. They claim that they are legally bound to return them to DVLA or the Passport office respectively. You can be standing in front of them with the driving licence in their hand and they will not hand it over. It must be sent back to the issuer. Bit of a gutter. So, if it is handed in, expect it to be empty of your ID and bank cards and only get the actual wallet back. *** All in all, the best and only advice is to contact the police to report the loss, keep in touch with them in case it shows up at Jocelyn Square, but in the meantime just start cancelling whatever ID was in it and start the process to get new cards, etc. You're going to have to do all that whether the police get it or not, so just start now.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/f4a49h/what_taxi_might_i_have_left_my_id_in_that_waits/fhrk7mw/
Created	Sun 16th Feb 2020 4:49am
Status	normal ()

If you just jumped into a taxi off the street then it should have been a hackney. There is not just one hackney mob though. You have Glasgow Taxis (which is a modern rebrand of the old TOA), then you have some hackneys on the ranks from Hampden and Network. On top of that, a significant number of hackney drivers don't attach themselves to any company and are just self employed guys working without a radio (ie: one man bands).

All that doesn't actually matter. Per licence conditions, all lost property is supposed to get handed into a police station if we can't get contact with the passenger. It can be absolutely any station. We just drop it into whatever one is most convenient to us.

It all gets centralized eventually. I don't know how often the police send lost property to the hub, but I'd imagine once a week. The lost property hub is on Saltmarket. Its the wee building on the corner of Saltmarket and Jocelyn Square (in front of the High court, opposite corner to Billy Bislands bike shop).

***** Worth pointing out at this stage, that most of the stuff in the wallet won't get returned to you. The police WILL destroy bank cards when they get handed in and WILL NOT return driving licences or passports to you. They claim that they are legally bound to return them to DVLA or the Passport office respectively. You can be standing in front of them with the driving licence in their hand and they will not hand it over. It must be sent back to the issuer. Bit of a gutter. So, if it is handed in, expect it to be empty of your ID and bank cards and only get the actual wallet back. *****

All in all, the best and only advice is to contact the police to report the loss, keep in touch with them in case it shows up at Jocelyn Square, but in the meantime just start cancelling whatever ID was in it and start the process to get new cards, etc. You're going to have to do all that whether the police get it or not, so just start now.