LoJack® System Helps the Philadelphia Police Department Recover Stolen Kia Forte
- March 8, 2016
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2010 Kia Forte discovered that their vehicle had been stolen from the area of their residence in the northwest section of Philadelphia. The Kia owners were especially upset because there were two prosthetic legs in the vehicle. The upset owners called 911 and the Philadelphia Police Department Radio dispatched a 14th District officer to investigate the incident. The officer quickly arrived on location, interviewed the complainant and surveyed the area for the subject vehicle. When the Kia could not be located, the officer prepared a stolen vehicle report and arranged for the vehicle information to be entered into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Kia.
A short while later officers from the Philadelphia PD Northeast Division picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Kia with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the officers tracked the signal to the area of Dyre Street. The officers observed the Kia which was parked at the curb. The officers cautiously approached the Kia and determined that same was unoccupied. A search subsequent to recovery revealed that the costly prosthetic legs were inside the Kia.
The owner of the Kia was advised by the police that the vehicle had been recovered and secured for safekeeping.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2010 Kia Forte in May 2011 at Enterprise Auto Sales in Warrington, Pennsylvania.