The latest gadget aimed at reducing the number of high-speed police pursuits was demonstrated to area law enforcement on Thursday in a parking lot at the Toledo Police Academy in Perrysburg Township. About 20 officers from police and sheriff’s departments in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan got a firsthand look at the high-tech GPS tracking …
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Schools to roll out GPS tracking of buses
WILLIAMSTON, N.C. (WNCT) – For the first time, Martin County Schools will use a GPS system to track its buses. Right now, staff and drivers are getting training on how the system works. The new GPS system is the latest move in Martin County Schools to keep drivers accountable and improve safety. With the new …
GPS device saves girl during sex assault
ROWLETT — A mother says a tiny GPS tracking device may have saved her 15-year-old daughter’s life. The teen has Asperger’s, an autism spectrum disorder. And Monday, the device may have stopped a sexual assault from going further. The mother bought it just last month because her daughter has a tendency to wander off. “I can …
GPS tracking app helps catch car theft suspect
A cellphone tracking app helped catch a suspected robber and carjacker in Santa Ana, police said Friday. A man told police he was sleeping in a 1997 Honda CR-V in the 1600 block of North Susan Street, when he awoke around 7 a.m. to find an armed man, wearing a hoodie and mask, on a …
GPS tracking device to stop mother and children from join Isis
An unprecedented case will see the parents of four young children from separate families fitted with GPS tracking devices to stop them from joining Islamic State (Isis). On 2 March, the children, one mother, and members of their extended family — including a maternal grandmother and the uncle of two of the children — were …
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Real-Time Data Tracking And GPS Might Save Rhinos
You thought poacher-monitoring drones were the next big thing? Think again: this rhino-wearable (and durable!) technology may be the very thing that saves one of our favorite ivory-horned mammals from the brink of extinction. In a recent article published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, researcher Paul O’Donoghue noted that “an estimated $7-10 billion annually, …
GPS tracking devices being used in county vehicles
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC)- Genesee County will soon use GPS tracking devices to track county owned vehicles. To see how this might play out, they can look right next door to Monroe County which has been using GPS systems on county vehicles for the past 10 years. Monroe County has 38 vehicles equipped with the Verizon …
The new wave of crime prevention: GPS tracking device
They’re designed to keep the public safe and save local law enforcement money. In a time when new technology seems to debut every few months rather than every few years, GPS tracking devices are helping the criminal justice system keep an eye on convicted criminals and even those awaiting trial. It played out in a …
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GPS tracking device reveals bank robber
A Loop bank robbery suspect was arrested Friday after a GPS tracking device placed in the stolen cash led police to his location, authorities said. The robbery happened about noon at a First American Bank branch at 33 W. Monroe St., authorities said. Stacey Hill entered the bank and handed a teller a note demanding …
Dominos Pizza is Eating Up GPS Technology
The Australian company (DMP), which holds the master-franchise rights to the Domino’s brand in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, France and the Netherlands, said in early May it would be the first company in the world to let customers track their pizzas’ journey to their doors on smartphones, tablets and TV screens. Domino’s said today it …