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By Greg Bartlett

For months, your town has been plagued by rising crime rates. Drug sales, especially, have risen, and no matter how many times police find stores of drugs, they can’t seem to locate the people who are actually selling the drugs – or if they find the people, they can’t find the drugs. And with drugs readily available, some people are resorting to burglary, car theft, and larceny – and maybe even robbery – to finance their drug habits.

The best way to handle the problem is to stop the sellers, cutting off the supply of drugs. If your town can manage that, then some of the resulting property crimes should be reduced as well. The problem is, all the drug sellers in town know what your police officers look like and can recognize any of the undercover agents instantly.

But then your police department got a new undercover agent, an electronic one. While investigating suspicious individuals, police can use a GPS tracking device to monitor the location and activities of the suspects. The device will probably be placed on or in a car, and will allow police to find out where the car’s been, how fast it’s traveled, what stops it’s made, and pretty much any and all information that will help with the investigation.

In Massachusetts, a police department which had the same type of undercover agent discovered a cache of marijuana worth about $700,000 in a warehouse, but no suspects to which they could connect the drugs. After obtaining a search warrant, police placed a GPS tracking device inside the crates to allow them to monitor their movement. Sure enough, the undercover agent alerted police the moment the crates were moved, and allowed police to follow the crates when they were transported. They then arrested three suspects and charged them with marijuana trafficking.

If that had been your town, the GPS tracking device would have helped police lower your crime rate. They would finally have been able to locate the source of the drugs which have been plaguing your city and making desperate individuals turn to property crimes to get money to pay for their next fix.

Rather than sending out human officers to trail all suspicious individuals in an attempt to help lower your crime rates, just use a GPS tracking device. It can help police departments by constantly and accurately monitoring vehicles and objects. Hopefully your new undercover agent will start reducing crime rates again, making your town safer.