By John Tuohy, Indy Star
The department’s latest crime-fighting tool seems to have been ripped from the pages of a James Bond screenplay rather than from an episode of a police drama on television: GPS trackers fired out of the grills of squad cars onto fleeing suspects’ vehicles.
“This is just another tool in our toolbox,” Lawrence Police Capt. Gary Woodruff said.
Lawrence has been awarded a $14,000 grant from the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute to buy the mobile GPS devices. The police department expects to get them in about 90 days.
The technology, called StarChase, will allow officers to back off from high-speed chases and follow suspects at lower — and safer — speeds.
“It’s a virtual helicopter,” company President Trevor Fischbach said. “It gives officers and dispatchers advantages they don’t often have during pursuits.”
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