That system will be installed on July 1. Soon after propertyroom.com will begin picking up items for sale online.

Founded in 1999 by a former police detective, the Farmington, N.J.-based company works with more than 500 law enforcement agencies around the country, including 10 in Indiana, according to their Web site.

They don’t charge the department anything to come and pick up the items, instead taking 50 percent of the proceeds from every sale under $1,000 and 25 percent of every sale over $1,000, then sending the rest to the department in a semi-monthly check form.

They would come to pick items up once or twice a month, Wasilewski said.

When the items get to the company’s warehouses, they’re professionally appraised. The company gets double or quadruple what a local department would at their own auction, Wasilewski said.

“We’re very, very good at taking evidence in,” he said. “We’re not so good at bringing it out the other end.”