I think that would be an excellent question for you to ask the RCMP, what they do when something is lost, stolen or damaged and how they dispose of it. I know that in the case of my office, we had some cell phones that were reported lost, and we take steps to remotely wipe them, to change the password and then to deactivate the phone number. Someone might have the hardware, but will not access anything on it.
It's a great question to ask the departments. It's not something we would look at in the financial audit. We would care that they have properly recorded that the Crown asset no longer exists and that it's been removed from the books.