Police authorities have a new weapon at their disposal in order not to lose track of stolen cars.
The car thefts they continue to spread worry to the owners and reflection to the police authorities, who are feverishly looking for ways in order to limit this phenomenon.
The police authorities, of course, do not focus exclusively on preventing thefts, but also on how to “arrest” gang members, without having to pursue themwhich, as it has been proven, can have a tragic end even for innocent bystanders.
The need for pursuit is eliminated by a relatively new “weapon” of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) which pertains to a tracking device, the size of which is as one soda can.
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More specifically, it is a tracking device that is launched either through a modified AR-15 rifle, either by means of a mechanism on the front of a patrol car.
Just this GPS Tracker wedge into the back of a target vehicle, the police authorities have the ability to know in real time where the vehicle isand therefore there is no need to initiate a high-risk chase that is likely to cause chaos on the road network and perhaps injure passers-by.
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It is noted, of course, that these “bullets” are not the only “weapon” in the NYPD’s arsenal. As its officials have mentioned, the “artificial traffic jams”so that thieves are forced to reduce speed and at the end to fall into the clutches of the police.
The traffic jam is created with the closing sections of a motorway and bridges, so that all cars, including the stolen one, slow down, and there is not the slightest escape route.
Finally, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has done it repeatedly appeal to citizens to equip themselves with AirTagsthis popular object tracking device from Apple.
As long as an AirTag has been installed in a car, which then is stolenthe owner of the vehicle will be able to have constantly image of where this isreceiving an update on his mobile phone.
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In the past, in fact, the NYPD in collaboration with a non-profit organization had donate 500 AirTags to citizens in order to further promote their use.
