Q: I am being denied a police report from my local precinct and being told that I must file somewhere else. Is this lawful?
My drivers license was stolen (I have a police report and a DMV report for this) and recently used as ID in a car accident that I was not a part of. I obtained the Police Accident Report for this wreck then went to my local NYPD 78th Precinct to report this instance. The officers on duty said that they could not write a report at my local precinct. They said that in order to get a police report for my stolen ID, I would have to travel to the police precinct from which the original Police Accident Report was written. I would have to find the officer that wrote the Police Accident Report while he was on duty and have him amend that original report. They said that after he amended the report, then he could file an identity theft report for me, and he was the only person that could do this. I was then told that this officer only works midnight until 7am (they did not give me exact days) at a precinct that is an hour and a half from my house. Is this lawful?
A: Getting a police report changed is difficult. You may want to start with filing a police report that your identity was used by someone other than yourself. If the matter is investigated, that officer will be in a position to request that the accident report be corrected.
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