They allow the car to be tracked at a distance where the driver doesn't realise he's being tracked. When the car pulls up, the tracker will be only a few seconds behind. If the driver doesn't realise he's being tracked then he's more than likely going to return to the car, whereupon it would be easy to nab him with no chance of him starting a high speed pursuit. The police could easily wheelclamp the car.
BBC1 Traffic Cops 53What people? What chase? Conor simply asked: "Ever watch TV programmes where it shows the Police trying to find a car equipped with a tracker?" Well in this programme (you did see it, yeah?), that's...
BBC1 Traffic Cops 54Until the day when a little screen pops up on the back of the car telling the...
Still, I *am* finding it hilarious how everyone's just trying to find problems with the solutions rather than defend the idea that the police should continue in high speed chases putting the public in mortal danger. It's almost like you do realise that it should be avoided (therefore agreeing with my primary point here), but you're *so* negative about the alternatives and can't think of any solutions of your own.
I used to work with a guy like that. He was *always* negative in meetings. He'd sit and listen to people trying to create ideas and just poke holes in them. Fair enough you might say, but on the other hand he'd never come up with any solutions of his own, nor even to propose solutions to the holes he poked. Most of what he said was blindingly obvious and merely indicative of a solution still in design.
He didn't last too long.
