GPS bicycles : high tech crime fighters in the Netherlands

GPS bicycles : high tech crime fighters in the Netherlands

The Netherlands, a country with more bikes than people, has a problem with bike theft. One out of every ten bikes – which works out to 80,000-100,000 bikes – are stolen each year. To catch professional bike thieves local police are planting bicycles in high crime areas of Amsterdam. The special bikes are equipped with a GPS transmitter that police plan to use to track the bikes, catch the thief, and hopefully have them unwittingly lead them back to hubs of bike theft activity. CNN