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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Trevjon   
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   >> Don't you think Dixon's car would have had a (real-time) tracker, Trev?   
   >>   
   >> Wouldn't the insurance have insisted on it?   
   >>   
   >> (In the other post, I mentioned satellites and the mobile phone network,   
   >> but my understanding is that decent trackers use both - they receive   
   >> info from GPS satellites to fix the location, and then send it out using   
   >> the cellular network).   
   >>   
   >> Presumably Securitas have got a central security station somewhere, to   
   >> which depots 'check in', in real time.   
      
   >With the amount of cash involved, I would have thought that there would   
   >certainly be measures in place to counteract what is a pretty well known   
   >ploy, of kidnapping manager/family etc.   
   >   
   >The gang may well have found a way to circumnavigate this, and I doubt the   
   >police would actually want to broadcast this, if it was the case, and I   
   >doubt the security company would want it leaked also.   
      
   Software hacking somewhere along the line?   
      
   >As is usually the case in these jobs, a good deal of "inside help", or at   
   >least "inside knowledge" is required.   
      
   I agree with all of the above.   
      
   The use of trackers as an anti-kidnap device is common knowledge. As is   
   real-time communication between each site (mobile like a car or fixed   
   like a compound) and a central security station.   
      
   Even with toilets in some supermarkets, someone has to sign the board   
   every hour to say they've checked everything's OK!   
      
   >Footnote:  Do to the nature of my job, some of our cars and vans have   
   >trackers fitted, using both the GPS and GSM ("mobile network") systems plus   
   >a secure radio link too. This radio link is operated by all UK and European   
   >Police forces, and sends out a VHF radio signal if activated.   
      
   When in his car Dixon would have been 'protected' by multiple such   
   devices. Ideally with no-one knowing the location of all of them. With   
   the signal from each one being multiply monitored. That's how I'd do it   
   anyway.   
      
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