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Ctrack aids in arrest of car theft syndicate


Pretoria, 19 Feb 2013

A car theft syndicate that has been plaguing Pretoria was apprehended this morning, with the aid of Ctrack's vehicle tracking technology. The Ctrack monitoring and emergency bureau in Irene acted promptly, using its GSM/GPRS real-time tracking systems and co-ordinated the services that led to the location of one of its customer's stolen vehicle. The perpetrators were found in the act of stripping the vehicle, in an attempt to remove the tracking system.

The stolen vehicle was already fitted with false number plates, and inside the vehicle, various instruments used for vehicle theft were recovered. All of this happened in less than an hour.

The scene was handed over to the South African Police Service, and it was identified that the syndicate has been responsible for dozens of vehicle thefts in the Pretoria area recently.

The unsuspecting owner of the vehicle was immediately alerted and contacted by the Ctrack emergency bureau when the incident occurred, and was happy to assist the police in their investigation. To the owner's relief, the vehicle was returned undamaged.

“Persistence pays, crime doesn't,” says Ctrack's Regional Managing Director South Africa, Bruce Richards. “Ctrack has been actively involved with the South African Police Service since the company's inception, more than 25 years ago.”

Ctrack's bespoke technology gives complete visibility of its customers' vehicles in real-time, and has assisted the police in various domestic and cross-border vehicle recoveries and hijackings.

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Ctrack is a JSE company specialising in fleet management and vehicle tracking for a global client base. With more than 25 years of experience, Ctrack is recognised as a world-leading provider of advanced machine-to-machine communication and telematics solutions that adds value to this global base of customers with mobile assets.

Ctrack's end-to-end research, design, development, manufacturing, sales and support of customised solutions for customers is serviced by a global network of staff and team members in more than 50 countries through the Ctrack brand. The company's technology and electronic division designs and develops a robust range of asset management and monitoring systems using GPS satellite positioning, GSM cellular communication systems, and other advanced communication and sensory technologies. The result is innovative and advanced machine-to-machine communication that provides Ctrack customers with 24x7x365 information and monitoring of their mobile assets that help them to achieve operational efficiencies and cost reduction targets.

Operations span six continents, with over 1 000 employees and more than 700 000 systems sold.

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