The month of June has been designated National Safety Month by the National Safety Council. The National Safety Council is an organization that focuses on preventing deaths on roads, in homes, workplaces, and communities through a combination of leadership efforts, education, research, and advocacy.

Each week during the month of June the organization focuses on different aspects of safety for its efforts. The weeks and their focus safety issues are listed below.

• Week One: Emergency preparedness.
• Week Two: Wellness
• Week Three: Falls
• Week Four: Driving Safety

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State troopers have difficult jobs in the best of circumstances. You must have nearly encyclopedic knowledge of state and constitutional laws as well as specialized training to handle a wide range of tactical, physical, and emotionally fraught situations while keeping a level head. It’s a tough job that is physically and mentally taxing.

On any given day you may be called upon to do any, and sometimes all, of the following:

• Administer breathalyzer tests.
• Issue traffic citations.
• Respond to scenes of accidents.
• Render first aid.
• Bring in and operate emergency life-saving equipment.
• Respond to civil unrest.
• Secure evidence at crime and/or accident scenes.
• Engage in high-speed law enforcement activities while protecting the safety of others on the road.
• Testify in court.

GPS tracking for state troopers offers you another tool to use in your arsenal to aid in many of your responsibilities while providing vital protection for you in other ways.

How Can GPS Tracking Help State Troopers?

You might be surprised by the number of ways GPS tracking can assist state troopers. It offers many more benefits than routing and cutting costs, including the variety of benefits listed below:

• Improved vehicle maintenance scheduling procedure so to avoid unnecessary maintenance-related accidents and breakdowns.
• Coordinate efforts with other law enforcement agencies as well as other state troopers when conducting high-speed
• Provide real-time location-based information when officers need assistance.
• Eases dispatch burden by assisting in dispatching nearest officers to respond to emergencies and accidents or to render assistance.
• Provides verification of each officer’s location throughout the shift. This alone assists with dispatch efforts and helps to establish the closest officer to respond when emergencies arise.
• Assists with proper trooper deployment to ensure safety and security throughout designated regions.

In light of recent events in the state of Massachusetts, there is an added benefit to consider for GPS tracking for state troopers. In Massachusetts, scandal erupted with the revelation that more than 20 troopers put in for overtime regarding shifts they did not work. One officer involved in the scandal is believed to have been paid for 116 overtime shifts he did not work.

GPS tracking provides real-time verification of officer shifts so that officers aren’t paid for overtime hours they did not work. It goes a long way toward restoring public confidence in the integrity of state troopers everywhere.

GPS tracking for troopers offers plenty of benefits to make it a worthy investment for state troopers across the country. Not only for establishing and restoring public confidence but also for improving officer safety of all our state troopers as they go about their duties.

If you looking to learn more about GPS for state troopers or highway patrol fleets, give us a call here at LiveViewGPS at 1-888-544-0494.

Burbank police officers are happy to report that two suspects have both been arrested less than an hour after they attempted to steal expensive items from a Burbank beauty store. Mariel Miranda-Guerra and Giovanni Lopez-Valencia have been charged with burglary and grand theft. They are being detained at the Burbank city jail on a $250,000 bail.

The two suspects decided to break into Ulta Beauty at Victory Plaza at around midnight on May 5th. The male and female pair smashed one of the store’s front windows, and the couple grabbed thousands of dollars’ worth of perfume from the establishment’s displays. When the window was breached, a security alarm went off at the store which prompted Burbank police officers to respond. When they arrived on scene, the couple had already fled with the expensive merchandise.

Thankfully, responding police officers determined that a number of the expensive perfume bottles had tiny and discreet GPS trackers attached to them. The officers quickly utilized the establishment’s GPS systems to pinpoint the location of some of the stolen goods. Upon determining a location, police jumped into a Los Angeles police department helicopter to descend on the suspect’s location.

In the wee hours of the morning, police caught up with both the male and female suspects in Canoga Park. Investigators successfully recovered the stolen Ulta perfume, and they also found common burglary tools inside the couple’s vehicle. Incredibly, the couple was able to steal or destroy perfume valued at more than $19,000.

The Burbank Police Department has confirmed that the GPS tracking device attached to the perfume bottles was instrumental in catching these two thieves. Without the explicit location of the suspects, it is very unlikely that the police would be able to track down the suspects within the hour.

Unfortunately, too many burglary cases go unsolved because stolen merchandise quickly becomes untraceable or sold on the black market. In recent years, security cameras have greatly improved the police’s ability to track down suspects, but police are often forced to rely on the public to identify suspects using this method. New GPS devices, on the other hand, can now lead police straight to the suspect and the stolen goods.