GPS Tracking Can Help During Carjackings
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Cases of carjackings are unusual in suburbia, but the crimes are commonplace in highly-populated metropolitan areas. The attraction to criminals is that they can obtain a car without damaging it, be in possession of the keys, and usually get away with some money or identification as well.
Carjacking is motor vehicle theft, except it has an added element of extreme danger: the vehicle is occupied and the thief is armed, usually with a gun.
Rarely is the driver hurt; only frightened. For protection against carjackings, safety measures and precautions should be regularly followed. “Don’t park in a dark, secluded area,” is sound advice. So is “Buy a GPS Tracking Device for Theft Recovery.”
GPS Tracking Finds a Small Object from Space
GPS tracking systems operate using signals from the U.S. satellite system in space. Be it night or day, rainy or dry weather, GPS tracking devices are efficient at providing the exact time and position of an object, anywhere on earth.
GPS tracking is usually offered in two ways: real time GPS tracking and passive GPS tracking. In passive GPS tracking, the device does not have the ability to transmit. The units log or record the information for viewing later.
A real-time GPS tracking system is needed for theft recovery. A “live” tracking system comes with a built-in transmitter such as a cellular uplink module that transfers the GPS tracking data directly from the vehicle to a computer.
LandAirSea’s top-selling live tracking system is the Victoria GPS Tracking System. It is perfect for asset management, partly because the vehicle tracking device offers position updates every 10 seconds. The location reports can be viewed from any Web-enabled computer with a logon to a secure company server.
GPS Tracking a Cabbie’s Best Friend?
Most car rental companies and cab services today are using GPS tracking systems on their vehicles, to keep track of their vehicles anytime, anywhere.
In a fleet such as taxi cabs, some of the important benefits of GPS tracking are:
· Reduction in operating expenses
· More efficient routing
· Better scheduling of routine maintenance
· Elimination of unauthorized trips
· Stolen vehicle recovery
Gun violence in Massachusetts
The advantage of GPS tracking in stolen vehicle recovery is clearly evident in the recent story of the Cambridge, Mass. cabbie carjacking. Two young women in their 20s were arrested after they assaulted a 44-year-old cabbie and took his taxi.
One woman held a blunt object to the back of the driver’s head and demanded money. The driver escaped unharmed when he hit the brakes and bailed out. The women fled in the vehicle.
Luckily, the taxi had a real-time vehicle tracking device affixed to the inside of the cab. The GPS tracking system had been installed by the cab company in order to monitor drivers and dispatch the closest available driver when calls for service are received.
But GPS tracking systems have an added benefit of theft recovery. When a vehicle is taken, the owner or police can find the exact location of the GPS tracking receiver from a remote computer. Latitude and longitude, convertible to address is offered every few seconds or few minutes. And police can use this data to track down the carjacking culprits.
The scenario played out without a hitch in Cambridge. GPS tracking data led police to a driveway on a residential street, where the cab was found stripped and abandoned. A suspicious woman was seen nearby. Though she claimed to have been at a friend’s house at the time of the carjacking, the jig was up when her shoes were found in the stolen vehicle.
Police agencies and crime-fighting organizations always recommend that drivers cooperate with carjackers and relinquish the possession of their cars, as long as they can retreat to a place of safety. This may be a tactic difficult for some drivers to obey. The average price of a new automobile is $30,000. Sometimes, there are children strapped in the back seat of the car.
That price tag might not be so worrisome when a GPS tracking system is placed in the vehicle. Real-time vehicle tracking systems have an excellent record of theft recovery. GPS tracking devices can be hidden covertly and will work reliably, as long as their power and GPS tracking signal capture are strong.
There is some evidence that the nationwide carjacking rate is down, because criminals are slowly starting to realize their chance of capture increases with the popularity of GPS tracking systems
Tags: cabbie, carjacking, GPS Tracking, gun, recovery, Taxi, violence
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