LoJack® System Helps Philadelphia Police Department Recover Stolen Chevrolet Impala
- June 14, 2016
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2009 Chevrolet Impala discovered that their vehicle had been stolen from the area of West Philadelphia. A call was placed to 911 and the Philadelphia PD Radio dispatched a uniformed officer to investigate the incident. The officer quickly arrived on location, interviewed the complainant and surveyed the area for the Chevrolet. When the Chevrolet could not be located, the officer prepared a stolen vehicle report and arranged to have the stolen vehicle information entered into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Chevrolet.
A short while later the members of the elite Philadelphia PD Aviation Unit were on patrol over the City of Philadelphia in a Philadelphia PD helicopter. The aviation officers reported to the Philadelphia PD Radio that the LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) in the airship had picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Chevrolet. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC in the airship, the pilot began to reduce the altitude of the helicopter until the officers visually observed a Chevrolet matching the description of the stolen vehicle. The aviation officers relayed the information to police radio and officers assigned marked patrol units on the ground approached and investigated the Chevrolet. Officers determined that this vehicle was in fact the Chevrolet reported stolen earlier in the day. Uniformed officers advised the Chevrolet owner that the undamaged vehicle had been recovered and the owner took possession of same.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Chevrolet Impala in September 2010 at Enterprise Auto Sales in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.