For these reasons, these preventative devices almost always alarm systems and vehicle tracking systems fall short in preventing your vehicle from being stolen.
It is therefore essential that your vehicle also has a vehicle recovery device, as this device helps to retrieve the stolen vehicle and improves the probability of catching the thieves.
The only downside of the recovery device is that the recovery process only kicks off …show more content…
The procedure for reporting a stolen vehicle may differ according to your tracking company, but its generally done by contacting the tracking company's control centre.
Other tracking organisations may allow clients to log vehicle theft notification through smartphone apps or via special panic button remotes.
Once the control centre receives the stolen vehicle notification they immediately activate the dormant vehicle recovery device. After activation, the device starts to transmit a coded signal which is picked up a special computer program. This computer program is installed in the vehicles of armed response teams employed by the vehicle tracking company.
Vehicle Recovery Process
As soon as the tracking company's Control Centre activates the tracking device they also alert all relevant armed response teams in the vehicle's vicinity.
Where a tracking device will indicate the position of the vehicle on digital map a recovery device will only register the signal which recovery device transmits. Therefore the closer a response vehicle is to your stolen vehicle the stronger the