GPS Trackers Offer Graveyard Safety
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- Category: Law Enforcement
Police Use GPS To Bust Graveyard Crooks
Allowing Mourners To Grieve
Los Angeles is a city that is full of palm trees, Hollywood celebrities and apparently really creepy thieves. According to a report released from the Los Angeles Police Department, Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier had reported nearly 26 thefts this year, a sharp increase from year’s prior. How the crimes were occurring was when mourners would gather at the cemetery to pay their final respects to loved ones, thieves would break into the mourner’s vehicles and steal the belongings. However, the criminals were eventually brought to justice thanks to the use of a GPS tracker.
Cemeteries are a place most people don’t think about security. These sacred fields filled with loved ones who have passed away should be immune to crime, but as one officer investigating the crimes said, “What occurs outside of the cemetery can easily occur inside the cemetery gates”. After numerous people filed reports with police about the thefts, police decided to use a real-time GPS tracker to apprehend the creepy crooks. What they did was place the GPS tracker inside a vehicle with some items that had the appearance of value. When the creepy crooks illegally entered the vehicle and stole the goods, police were able to track their every move and arrest the thieves.
"With live GPS trackers now able to document with precision and accuracy exactly where a suspect or person of interest is located it makes sense that police and law enforcement agencies would use both real-time GPS trackers such as the LandAirSea SilverCloud GPS as part of their surveillance operations", explained a fleet tracker expert for the GPS Tracker Shop.
GPS tracking devices are commonly utilized by police to monitor the movements of criminals, and this is simply another story of how technology combined with crafty police work can lead to the successful arrest of a criminal.
GPS Tracker Opinion
Should these thieves face a much stiffer fine or penalty for the lack of morality and poor taste, robbing people mourning and paying last respects to their loved ones?