StarChase Pursuit Management

As much as the folks out in Los Angeles love to watch a good car chase on the evening news, the L.A. Police understand that high speed chases through heavily populated areas is not always the best solution to pursuing and catching certain criminals. So they’re working with a Virginia based company StarChase, who’s running a tagging and tracking pursuit management solution. With this solution police vehicles are equipped with a small cannon that sits in the cruisers grill, and with the help of a laser pointer can fire a small projectile embedded with a GPS device with an ‘aggressive’ adhesive at the suspects vehicle. Once the vehicle is successfully tagged the police officer can back off and track the vehicle and its driver remotely and make a more safe apprehension after a quick trip to Dunkin Donuts. The system continually reports back on the suspect vehicles movements so has the additional benefit of providing court evidence supporting excessive speeds and recklessness driving behavior.

Check out the video demo at: http://www.starchase.org/movies/StarChasevideo.wmv