The exact same thing happens in the US. About 2 years after your equipment is confiscated, you get a letter stating that you can come get your stuff within the next 6 days or they are going to auction it off. So you've got to spend the gas to make a 2 hour drive to wherever they took your stuff, and then everything will be broken anyway. It's obsolete by now. And it's all covered in evidence stickers that don't peel off but at least give your case some 'street cred'. They always manage to break the case in about 5 places and the hard drives always come back DOA.

And it used to be they didn't have an Mac monitors, keyboards or mice, so they'd take ALL your Mac stuff. But for a PC they just take the tower.