Vehicle Tracking Birmingham & Manchester
GPS Vehicle Tracking in Birmingham & Manchester
There are hundreds of ways to deploy vehicle tracking in Birmingham, Manchester or anywhere else in the UK, but doing it discreetly is a significantly greater challenge.
Have you considered the legality of what you are doing?
How likely are you to be caught when deploying the tracking device?
Can you fit it in a place on the vehicle where it will not be discovered?
Can you be sure that the vehicle tracker has been set up correctly?
This is why hiring a Private Investigator is a much safer and more reliable option than doing it yourself.
How Does GPS Vehicle Tracking Work?
GPS vehicle tracking can be a very important part of private Investigation.
Although there can be many reasons why you would want to track a vehicle, for the most part this service is utilised for cheating partner cases otherwise known as ‘Matrimonial Surveillance’.
Once an investigator has covertly deployed the GPS vehicle tracker the client is then required to download an app to their phone or mobile device.
The app is compatible with the GPS vehicle trackers and monitors the exact location and movements in real time 24 hours a day. You can view the location and journey on a map.
This means that you can view where your husband or wife is driving to while they are still moving.
The app can also be viewed on any laptop, tablet or desktop.
All data for each and every day is stored. Meaning the client doesn’t need to sit with eyes glued to their phone to enable them to see where the subject is going. You can check back at any time to see if there is anything that you may have missed or to see if there are any patterns to the movements.
As the client, you can simply sign in, pick a day from the calendar and view the movements for that particular day. At the end of each investigation we can then download all the movements and hand these over to the client in a PDF type document if required.
If your partner comes up with an explanation then you can always check back to see if their story correlates with their movements on the days that they mentioned.
Where Do The Trackers Work And For How Long?
Our GPS vehicle trackers work in the UK and Europe.
Over recent years we’ve had subject vehicles travel to Ireland, the Netherlands and France from the UK.
The data can be viewed from anywhere in the world, providing you have a WIFI or 4G connection.
We have two types of GPS vehicle trackers. Both offer exactly the same operating software but differ in battery size.
The 6500mah battery has a battery life of approximately four weeks, is small in size, great for shorter jobs and is easier to hide.
We then have a slightly larger tracker that uses a 20,000mah battery. These last for approximately three months and are great for much longer surveillance jobs.
Is It Legal To Track Your Partner?
In the UK there has never been an incident where someone has been taken to court for using a vehicle tracking device to track just their spouse. In some ways it is a grey area and open to interpretation.
It is certainly not illegal to install a tracking system in a vehicle if you are the vehicle owner and you can track other users such as your spouse so long as they give permission.
If the vehicle is co-owned by both parties, either party may install a GPS tracker to secretly track the other.
A number of courts already ruled on the topic and allowed the evidence gathered from the co owned vehicle to be admissible.
Trackers do not record audio, nor do they take photographic evidence and are deployed onto the exterior of a vehicle so are seen as less intrusive.
We would always argue that the tracker has been deployed in the interest of our client and for the purpose of giving them a positive result due to their unfortunate circumstances.
Private Investigators are not allowed onto an individual's property without consent. This may be seen as civil trespassing.
Most of the time our clients reside at the address where the tracker is being deployed and can give consent to deploy the tracker.
It is vitally important not to damage a vehicle whilst installing a tracker. This would be seen as criminal damage.
There is no reason why any operative deploying a GPS vehicle tracker should have any need to physically touch the vehicle at any other time than the split second in which they deploy the tracker.
For a Private Investigator to be able to deploy a tracker they simply need to be able to get near to the vehicle.
Whether it is on the side of a public road, in a car park or on a driveway. Usually twenty seconds under the vehicle is enough.
Can the vehicle tracker be found?
As experienced private investigators in Birmingham & Manchester we know the areas where it is best to place GPS tracker devices so as to avoid being discovered, even with someone looking for it. There have been dozens of occasions where cars have gone through inspections such as MOT's without the tracker being noticed.
The GPS vehicle trackers are magnetic with a pulling weight of about 70kg, so there’s no need for any sort of hardwiring to the vehicle battery, like in the days of old. They are extremely unlikely to become accidentally detached from the vehicle.
This also allows the tracking device to be placed quickly and discretely on the vehicle without any need for adhesive or time spent fitting.
A Cheating Husband Caught
Anderson & Co Private Investigators were contacted by a woman whose husband worked away. He held a senior position within a company he had worked with for many years. Our client had suspected that something wasn’t right for quite some time as he had become very distant and disconnected.
He would leave the house on a Sunday evening and drive the 240 miles to his workplace. He would work throughout the week returning on a Friday evening. He had been doing this for many years and held a responsible position within a large corporate company.
Our client mentioned him always going offline at around 8pm and claiming to be going to bed. He would often call around this time and then nothing would be heard from him until the following day.
I advised our client that we should deploy a GPS tracker onto his vehicle to establish his movements. If he had indeed been going to bed then we would expect his car to remain in the hotel car park where he was staying, but if there was something more sinister going on then we would see the car moving shortly after 8pm.
The following weekend when our subject was next home we were able to deploy the tracker onto his car. He then left for work on the Sunday afternoon as he would normally do.
He arrived in the area close to his workplace approximately four hours later and as expected called our client just before 8pm. He claimed he was tired (as expected) and said he was going to bed as he had a long week ahead with some important meetings the following day.
Shortly after this phone call we were able to see his vehicle moving.
He In-fact drove to a residential address about ten minutes away from his hotel. Our client sat and watched as the vehicle remained there throughout the night and into the morning. At 06:50 in the morning his vehicle left the residential address and went back to the hotel. It remained at the hotel for approximately 40 minutes before moving again and going to the workplace for an 8am start.
Our client had suspected something like this for quite some time but when faced with hard evidence she found it hard to take. This was now all very real and her life in a matter of minutes had been turned upside down.
She also had two children and an important job that she had to focus on while discovering her husband was indeed with another woman and seemingly living a complete lie.
We decided to monitor via the tracker only throughout the first week. The husband continued to spend his evenings firstly back at the hotel and then would leave for the residential address just after 8pm.
On the Monday of week two we had him under surveillance. We were able to observe him arriving back at the hotel. He ate alone in the restaurant and then returned to his room. Interestingly we noticed he also had two phones, of which our client had been unaware.
Just after 8pm our subject exited the property in casual clothing. Due to the intelligence we had gathered from the previous week we deployed the second operative at the address we had seen him visiting. Again, as expected, he turned up at the address. After a brief stop at a convenience store where he bought wine and snacks.
Totally oblivious to the fact he was under surveillance he walked into the property via the side entrance and didn’t leave again until the following morning.
This continued for several weeks, with Wednesday being a ‘night off’ and him remaining at the hotel.
We carried out checks on the property he was visiting and were able to identify the woman as someone who worked under him.
Our client managed to continue with several months of surveillance and investigations before she presented her husband with the evidence.
She actually presented the evidence to him one Friday evening when he returned from his week away working, along with the divorce papers for him to sign.
He denied it at first and there were threats, but there was no way for him to deny the evidence in front of him. He had to come clean.
The following Monday his line manager was informed of the relationship and he was given his notice.
Our client was able to put herself in a strong financial position and start moving forward with her life which was something she wished she had done several years prior.
If you would like to know more about how GPS Vehicle Tracking can help you gather evidence then please visit our Matrimonial Surveillance Page
