Police set to get GPS
chips to help track suspects, criminals and lazy officials:
The
city police will have chip on its shoulders, a state-of-the-art microchip
to help track vehicles used by desperdos. City police has decided to go
for the modern day system but it is still awaiting a formal approval from
the state finance ministry.
This will be the first time
in the country that the police will use this technology and a team of
top officials, including a senior official from the state secretariat,
have already understood the working of the system.
The small chip and a tiny
antenna can be fitted on the vehicle of a suspect without his notice.
The police then can keep track of the suspect’s movements on a screen
at the police headquarters.
Not only that, movement of
the number of police vehicles used by the force could also be kept under
strict vigil by senior officers.
A senior police official,
who was part of the team visiting the chip factory told that everything
will be monitored round the clock, all over the state by senior officials
at the headquarters.
The GPS is a satellite-based
navigation system consisting of a network of 24 orbiting satellites.
The GPS signal contains a
"pseudo random code," ephemeris and almanac data. This data is being constantly
transmitted by each satellite. To determine position of a vehicle or a
person, the GPS receiver compares the time a signal is transmitted by
a satellite with the time it is received by the GPS receiver.
The police official said
that GPS receiver can accurately provide speed and direction of the vehicle
thus helping us detect every detail of the vehicle under our surveillance.
A remote-sensing map helps
keep every detail of the area being monitored through GPS. At the time
of deployment of the system, information of each vehicle to be monitored
by the police is entered into a database at the control station. These
data can be entered in a specific format to include vehicle description,
vehicle identification, in-vehicle equipment detail or any other special
needs.
The official said that they
were conducting an intensive investigation to track down a white-collar
criminal. They just have to install the system on the criminal's vehicle,
and rest is just matter of time for knowing where he goes, whom he meets.
Republished from Asian Age
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