LoJack® System Helps Philadelphia Police Department Recover a Stolen Nissan Altima
- March 31, 2017
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2008 Nissan Altima contacted the Philadelphia Police Department to report that their vehicle had been stolen in the area of their residence. The Philadelphia PD Radio dispatched a uniformed officer to investigate the incident. The officer quickly arrived on location, interviewed the vehicle owner and then surveyed the area the Nissan. When the Nissan could not be located the assigned officer prepared a stolen vehicle report and arranged for the vehicle information to be entered into state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Nissan Altima.
A short while later an investigator assigned to the Delaware County Auto Theft Task Force was conducting an unrelated auto theft investigation in the western section of Philadelphia. The auto theft investigator is assigned to an unmarked police vehicle equipped with a LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC). Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the investigator tracked the signal to the area of Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia and observed a parked vehicle matching the description of the stolen Nissan. The investigator cautiously approached the Nissan and determined that same was unoccupied. The Philadelphia PD Radio was notified and a marked Philadelphia PD vehicle was dispatched to recover the Nissan. The Nissan was confiscated for safekeeping and the owner was notified.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Nissan Altima in September 2008 at Nissan of Turnersville in New Jersey.