Transport for London's lost property offices (which handle items lost on the city's Tube, buses and taxis) handles over 130,000 items a year, including 24,000 bags and 10,000 mobile phones. ![]() ![]() Lost-and-found offices at large organizations can handle a large and varied collection of articles. However, it was not until 1893 that Louis Lépine, then prefect of police, organized efforts to actively track down the owners of lost items. Napoleon ordered his prefect of police to establish it as a central place "to collect all objects found in the streets of Paris", according to Jean-Michel Ingrandt, who was appointed the office's director in 2001. The first modern lost and found office was organized in Paris in 1805. ![]() In Japan, the lost-and-found property system dates to a code written in the year 718.
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