 GPS Tracking Systems Help Law Enforcement
With law enforcement and police agencies across the world struggling with budgetary constraints and cut-backs, apprehending criminals and improving internal investigative work can seem impossible. GPS tracking systems provide financially responsible or monetarily challenged law enforcement agencies and police departments the ability to sustain budget cuts without effecting officer effectiveness or performance. GPS tracking devices help assist law enforcement by:
- Allowing law enforcement to monitor a suspected drug-trafficker, arsonist, child molester, or any potential criminal suspect 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- Giving law enforcement departments the ability to audit or monitor potentially under-performing employees.
- Providing a unique and accurate way for officers to easily track vehicle maintenance records and mileage driven.
Tracking a suspect no longer requires an officer to spend months out on stake-outs or patrolling duties. GPS tracking systems always place a criminal or suspect within the long reach of the law as their driving and travel history can be recorded, stored, or viewed in real-time live! GPS tracking devices are now built and engineered to be compact, covert, and durable. The GPS trackers can ensure a suspect, criminal, or evidence is accurately and successfully monitored, helping law enforcement agencies compile evidence for an arrest.
When it comes to tracking or monitoring a potential suspect or criminal many law enforcement agencies prefer to have the tracking system data available and accessible in real-time. The Victoria tracking system is a real-time GPS tracker that has a long and consistent track record of assisting local, state, and federal municipalities and law enforcement agencies across the entire United States. Utilizing Global Positioning System satellite technology, and combining that with cellular communication and satellite imagery programs results in streaming real-time tracking data that can be viewed live!
Passive GPS Tracking: Cost-Effective Tracking
Because of the budgetary constraints and cut-backs facing many police departments, many law enforcement agencies have turned to a cost-effective approach to GPS tracking known as passive GPS tracking. The GPS Tracking Key Pro is the most widely used passive tracking device by law enforcement agencies across the United States because of its durable design, and ability to record over 100 hours of wheels-in-motion drive time on a single lithium battery cycle. Designed with an attached magent for outside mounting and placement, the GPS Tracking Key Pro gives law enforcement the flexibility to attach the GPS tracker to the outside frame underneath a potential criminal or suspect's vehicle.
Passive tracking systems provide police and law enforcement with second-by-second tracking, but do so at easily half the cost of the GPS tracking hardware and with no service fees. However, because passive tracking systems do not use cellular communication in transmitting data they must be removed from the vehicle and downloaded in order for a law enforcement agency to capture and view the recorded data. The best way to think of a passive tracking system is that it is a recorder of vehicle travel history, or a data-logger.
Whether It Is Real-Time GPS Tracking Or Passive GPS Tracking, The Technology Is Giving Law Enforcement Agencies Everything They Need To Be Successful On The Fight Against Criminals.
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 00:42
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Law Enforcement Choose The Best
GPS Tracking System Called Upon By Police
 Police are always looking for the best-of-the-best when it comes to GPS units. This is because most police agencies don't need GPS for routing or navigation, but rather tracking of criminals. GPS tracking devices have become one of the more popular tools among police departments large and small because of the recent economic events that have put financial strain on many police budgets. Although budget cuts and financial strain are nothing new to the men in blue, law enforcement are continuing to keep an upper-hand on criminals through the use of the most popular police GPS unit on the market, the GPS Tracking Key Pro.
In a market full of both data logging equipment and live tracking units, the GPS Tracking Key Pro continues to stand above the competition when it comes to monitoring superiority. Although I could give a complete product description full of specifications and features, there are only two main reasons why this car tracking unit is the one police agencies call upon.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 July 2010 02:04 )
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Friday, 21 May 2010 17:26
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A Real-Time Donation
Holliston Police Receive Live Tracking System
 Many police departments have had to absorb massive cutbacks due to the current economic situation plaguing the nation, and no department understands this more than the Holliston Police Department in Massachusetts. Unable to receive funding from the city or state for high-tech tools, the Holliston Police Department had no way of being able to afford some of the most widely used surveillance gadgets by other police forces. However, that all changed when a GPS tracking system company decided to be charitable and donate a real-time tracking device to the Holliston Police, allowing the small Massachusetts law enforcement agents to become more effective at their jobs.
GPS tracking devices are assets to police departments because the systems allow law enforcement agents to monitor potential criminals without placing a uniformed officer in danger, or paying a officer costly overtime pay.
Last Updated ( Friday, 21 May 2010 18:01 )
Monday, 03 May 2010 16:28
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Technology Helps Men In Blue
Battling Crime With Tracking Systems
 GPS tracking devices have so many functions these days that it can be hard to keep track of all the ways that they can be used. Many people know that vehicle tracking devices can save law enforcement officials hours and hours of time tracking down stolen cars and bank robbers, because the tracking systems give them the exact location of the missing goods. However, many people don’t realize that these same GPS tracking systems can help to keep police officers save as well.
Real time GPS tracking systems send out signals at regular intervals (some every second) to a satellite. These signals give the exact location of the device and the speed and direction at which it is traveling. All of this information can easily be viewed on a computer. Maps with this information can show the path that the device has taken throughout the day. Real time GPS trackers can be used in more ways than passive systems, which have to be retrieved and plugged into a computer if the information from the system is to be viewed and used. However, both of these systems are very advanced. They have long battery lives and give very precise and accurate readings.
Last Updated ( Monday, 03 May 2010 17:12 )
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:14
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Recovering Stolen Items
Police Tools Becoming Tools For Consumers
 Even with expensive locks, cutting edge alarm systems, and anti-theft devices, homes and cars are still broken into. More often than not, families and individuals find themselves losing expensive, irreplaceable possessions. After such an experience, theft victims have two dilemmas. One, how do they retrieve their stolen valuables? And two, how do they find the culprit who stole them? Not long ago, these two difficulties had limited solutions. Police had to track criminals down using unclear clues and other, less stable types of evidence.
Today, both problems can have the same, easy answer. While the traditional methods of clues and evidence still apply in today’s world, a new and sometimes more reliable means of tracking and finding criminals and stolen goods exists. If you are facing a theft situation, GPS tracking devices can both help the police find your stolen possessions as well as assist them in tracking down the thieves.
For example, this winter, police were able to track down two criminals, Jeffrey M. Rice and Steven A. Glanz, who were accused of breaking into almost 300 cars to steal items such as laptops and cell phones. Investigators placed a GPS tracking device into Glanz’s car and therefore gathered enough information to indict Rice and Glanz.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:22 )
Monday, 19 April 2010 18:52
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GPS Tracking Device Leads To Quick Arrest
Philadelphia Police GPS Track Bank Robber
 Police agencies are no strangers to the advantages that GPS tracking and monitoring tools can provide in the battle on crime, and after a bank robbery occurred in a PNC Bank in Philadelphia that notion was reinforced again.
After a man walked into a local Philadelphia PNC Bank branch, he spoke with a bank teller and then handed the bank employee a note that said he wanted her to hand over a bag of cash. Not wanting to escalate the situation, the bank teller placed a bunch of cash into a bag and handed the money to the bank robber. However, the quick-thinking bank teller also placed a GPS tracking system in the bag, allowing police to follow the cash in real-time.
After the bank robber walked out of the bank and fled the scene in a taxi cab, the police officers arriving at the scene of the crime were informed of the GPS tracker that was placed in the bait money. Once the law enforcement team accessed the GPS tracking data they were able to quickly find and arrest the man.
The police arrested the bank robber in Center City around noon without any protest or incident, according to a statement released by the police.
Source: CBS News
Last Updated ( Monday, 19 April 2010 19:09 )
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