Televisions tracked down by 'remote control'
Tracker and the SAPS have recovered electronic appliances worth almost R1-million in Cape Town today (September 20, 2007), after first recovering a hijacked truck and then tracing its movements through its Tracker.
The truck, loaded with various televisions, plasma and LCD monitors, radios and MP3 players for an auction, was hijacked from a company's premises late last night in Parrow.
The Tracker was activated early this morning and within 45 minutes the truck was recovered with less than a third of its original load.
Tracker then accessed the vehicle's movement history through advanced satellite tracking technology and investigated the co-ordinates where the truck had stopped prior to it being recovered.
"Together with the SAPS Maitland Dog Unit, we managed to recover the entire load of appliances and electronic goods from one of the three sites we investigated. This is the second time in recent weeks where our technology has helped us do more than just recover a hijacked vehicle. The alleged hijackers of another vehicle in Cape Town were recently linked to the murder of a woman after her body was discovered at one of the sites where the hijacked vehicle had stopped, prior to being recovered," says Tracker's Communications Manager, Gareth Crocker.
The vehicle tracking industry continues to have a major effect on combating crime in South Africa, as vehicle crime is so often at the centre of other forms of violent crime such as cash-in-transit heists, armed robberies and murder. In just over a decade, Tracker has recovered more than 35 000 stolen and hijacked vehicles, which has led to some 6700 arrests.
