united states website www.starchase.com starchase is the trade name of a system developed early in 2006 to track a fleeing vehicle of interest to police . its components consist of a tag a small projectile with the end covered in a viscous adhesive which contains a gps locator and a transmitter fired by compressed air from a small launcher on the front grille of a police car . 1 the system was developed to reduce the need for and the inherent danger of high speed pursuits many of which are precipitated by traffic violations where the motorist is later found to have outstanding business with the court system . upon deployment to a target vehicle the tag begins broadcasting its position to the dispatch center . catching the vehicle even without air support now becomes a matter of strategic interdiction rather than mere pursuit and interception . the starchase system as of summer 2013 was in use by the arizona department of public safety 2 los angeles sheriff s department austin police department 3 and numerous other agencies all over the world . see also edit real time locating real time location services automatic vehicle location references edit gps bullets are latest weapon for american police ; it sounds like something out of a james bond movie gps bullets that can track the location of a suspect s car . bbc 29 october 2013 . press release dps becomes the first state level law enforcement agency in the country to deploy the starchase pursuit management system ; the system which dps has already used with great success during pursuits launches a gps tracking device at fleeing vehicles . arizona department of public safety september 30 2009 . apd employs gps dart system to track suspect vehicles . daily texan february 14 2013 . http www.nij.gov nij topics law enforcement operations pursuit technology developments.htm remotetracking external links edit starchase site https www.facebook.com pages starchase llc 179465482250863 time magazine starchase one of the best inventions of 2007 the early show on cbs high tech car chases this technology related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title starchase & oldid 731882224 categories law enforcement equipmenttechnology stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 28 july 2016 at 03 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view