Trinidad & Tobago Express Newspaper
TEXT DISABLES CAR, HALTS THIEVES
Joel Julien jjulien@trinidadexpress.com
Saturday, August 1st 2009
A SIMPLE text message was all it took to stop car-jackers from carrying out a daylight theft on Thursday, police reports said yesterday.
According to police reports ,Ramesh Sammy, a vacationing visitor, went to Trincity Mall, Trincity, on Thursday.
But around 4 p.m. when Sammy exited the mall he realised that the Nissan Laurel he borrowed from his cousin was missing from the spot where he had parked. Sammy made a frantic call to his cousin-in-law Francis Pakeerah.
Pakeerah, however, never panicked, he told the Express yesterday, he instead sent a text message to his car using his cellphone.
And in less than a minute, Pakeerah, received a reply on his cellphone from the car with its exact location.
This was possible because Pakeerah’s car was outfitted with a Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking device known as the Tramigo P22, he said yesterday.
’The text message I got from the car said that it was stopped along the Caroni North Bank Road near the Speed Pack complex,’ Pakeerah said.
And as soon as Pakeerah realised that his car was stolen he decided to send another text message to the car, this time to disable it altogether.
’I sent a next text message to the car, this time with just a D, and I knew that the car what shut down and they wouldn’t be able to drive it anymore,’ Pakeerah said.
He then dialled the Piarco Police Station and reported the car theft and the location of the car to them.
Pakeerah left his D’Abadie home and then drove to the Old Piarco Airport where he saw several officers of the Northern Division Task Force searching for the thieves and his car parked at the side of the road.
Only the face of the car’s deck was missing from the car, police reports said.
The bandits are believed to have escaped on foot after the car was disabled, police said.
When the Express spoke to Jason Gordon, the owner of Innovative Technical Services, the company responsible for distributing the ’smart GPS system’ he advised all motorists to invest in any one of the many systems currently on the market, to help curb the rise in car theft in this country.
’There is technology on the market to stop all the car theft going on now. I believe this system could have saved Camille Daniel’s life if she had one also. Everyone needs to do something to protect themselves,’ Gordon said.
Daniel was fatally shot on June 24 after she drove into the West End Police Station in an effort to stop the theft of her Nissan Almera motor car.
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Saturday, August 1st 2009
A SIMPLE text message was all it took to stop car-jackers from carrying out a daylight theft on Thursday, police reports said yesterday.
According to police reports ,Ramesh Sammy, a vacationing visitor, went to Trincity Mall, Trincity, on Thursday.
But around 4 p.m. when Sammy exited the mall he realised that the Nissan Laurel he borrowed from his cousin was missing from the spot where he had parked. Sammy made a frantic call to his cousin-in-law Francis Pakeerah.
Pakeerah, however, never panicked, he told the Express yesterday, he instead sent a text message to his car using his cellphone.
And in less than a minute, Pakeerah, received a reply on his cellphone from the car with its exact location.
This was possible because Pakeerah’s car was outfitted with a Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking device known as the Tramigo P22, he said yesterday.
’The text message I got from the car said that it was stopped along the Caroni North Bank Road near the Speed Pack complex,’ Pakeerah said.
And as soon as Pakeerah realised that his car was stolen he decided to send another text message to the car, this time to disable it altogether.
’I sent a next text message to the car, this time with just a D, and I knew that the car what shut down and they wouldn’t be able to drive it anymore,’ Pakeerah said.
He then dialled the Piarco Police Station and reported the car theft and the location of the car to them.
Pakeerah left his D’Abadie home and then drove to the Old Piarco Airport where he saw several officers of the Northern Division Task Force searching for the thieves and his car parked at the side of the road.
Only the face of the car’s deck was missing from the car, police reports said.
The bandits are believed to have escaped on foot after the car was disabled, police said.
When the Express spoke to Jason Gordon, the owner of Innovative Technical Services, the company responsible for distributing the ’smart GPS system’ he advised all motorists to invest in any one of the many systems currently on the market, to help curb the rise in car theft in this country.
’There is technology on the market to stop all the car theft going on now. I believe this system could have saved Camille Daniel’s life if she had one also. Everyone needs to do something to protect themselves,’ Gordon said.
Daniel was fatally shot on June 24 after she drove into the West End Police Station in an effort to stop the theft of her Nissan Almera motor car.
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