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{{Short description|US company selling GPS tracking technology}}
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{{Infobox company
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| homepage = [http://www.{{URL|StarChase.com/ www.StarChase.com]|}}
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'''StarChase''' is company that produces GPS tracking devices of the same name, for law enforcement purposes. Developed from early 2006, the [[Less than lethal|less-than-lethal]] vehicle [[tagging system]] tags, tracks, and locates a fleeing vehicle.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news |title=GPS bullets are latest weapon for American police |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24731080 |access-date=14 February 2024 |work=British Broadcasting Corporation |date=29 October 2013}}</ref>
'''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 [[Global Positioning System|GPS]] locator and a transmitter, fired by compressed air from a small launcher on the front grille of a police car. The system was developed to reduce the need for, and the inherent danger of, [[Car chase#In reality|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.
 
The system was developed to reduce the need for, and the inherent danger of [[Car chase#In reality|high speed pursuits]]{{Broken anchor|date=2024-03-24|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|reason= The anchor (In reality) [[Special:Diff/1058960798|has been deleted]].}}.<ref name=BBC /> The US National Institute of Justice at one time was looking at technologies to reduce personnel and property damage, including [[Spike strip|tyre deflation devices]], electronics interference (through electronic discharge immobilising devices, electromagnetic radiation devices, and directed energy devices), and remote tracking.<ref>{{cite web |title=Technology for Pursuit Management |url=https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/technology-pursuit-management |website=National Institute of Justice |publisher=Government of the United States of America |access-date=14 February 2024 |date=3 March 2013}}</ref>
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.
 
Its components consist of an [[electronic tag]] in the form of a small, cylindrical projectile with the end covered in a viscous, industrial strength adhesive, which contains a battery-operated [[Global Positioning System|GPS]] tracker and [[Quad-band|Quad-Band]] transmitter (powered by a 1300 mAh [[dry cell]]), fired by compressed air from a small launcher on the front grille of a police car.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://starchase.com/assets/downloads/StarChase%20Tech%20Specification%20Sheets%20UPDATED.pdf|title=StarChase Tech Specification Sheets – UPDATED|date=10 Sep 2015 |website=StarChase.com |publisher=StarChase LLC |location=Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226002647/https://starchase.com/assets/downloads/StarChase%20Tech%20Specification%20Sheets%20UPDATED.pdf|archive-date=26 December 2019|access-date=26 Dec 2019}}</ref> The deploying vehicle must be within {{convert|25|ft}} range of the offending vehicle.<ref name=crewe>{{cite news |title=Making police pursuits safer |url=https://www.courier-record.com/articles/featured-stories/making-police-pursuits-safer/ |access-date=14 February 2024 |work=Courier-Record |date=8 November 2023 |location=Crewe, Virginia, USA}}</ref> The tracking signal location is then monitored from a dispatcher's computer screen. In 2013, the vehicle-mounted solution was US$5000 per installation, and $500 for each bullet.<ref name=BBC /> By 2023, the device was US$5900.<ref name=crewe />
 
The StarChase system, as of mid-2013 was in use by the [[Arizona Department of Public Safety]],<ref>[http://www.azdps.gov/Media/News/View/?p=115 "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.</ref> [[Los Angeles Sheriff's Department]], [[Austin Police Department]],<ref>[http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2013/02/14/apd-employs-gps-dart-system-to-track-suspect-vehicles "APD employs GPS dart system to track suspect vehicles"]. [[Daily Texan]], February 14, 2013.</ref> and other agencies globally including the [[Ontario Provincial Police]].<ref>{{cite news |title=OPP to fire GPS darts at fleeing vehicles to avoid high-speed chases |url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2017/05/19/opp-to-fire-gps-darts-at-fleeing-vehicles-to-avoid-high-speed-chases/ |access-date=14 February 2024 |work=CityNews |date=19 March 2017}}</ref>
 
By early 2023, the company released a variation using a rifle platform called the 'Guardian-HX'. Based on the [[AR-15–style rifle|AR-15 rifle]], pressurised gas propels the tracking projective, the rifle magazine well holding the battery.<ref name=Jal2023>{{cite web |last1=DaSILVA |first1=Steve |title=The NYPD Can Now Shoot GPS Trackers at Your Car |url=https://jalopnik.com/starchase-guardian-hx-nypd-vehicle-gps-tracker-police-1850327888 |website=Jalopnik |access-date=14 February 2024 |date=13 April 2023}}</ref> The projectile travels at {{convert|37|mph}}, and has to be discharged by the rifle user within {{convert|35|feet}} of the offending vehicle.<ref name=Jal2023 />
 
The StarChase system, as of summer 2013 was in use by the [[Arizona Department of Public Safety]], Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, Austin Police Department, and numerous other agencies all over the world.
== See also ==
 
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== References ==
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http://www.nij.gov/nij/topics/law-enforcement/operations/pursuit/technology-developments.htm#remotetracking
 
== External links ==
*[ {{official website|http://www.starchase.com/ StarChase site]}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071104065227/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1678438_1678439,00.html/ Time Magazine: StarChase, one of the best inventions of 2007]
*[http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3346826n/ The Early Show on CBS: High Tech Car Chases]
 
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