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Police Use GPS and Google to Find a Kidnapped Child.

I spend a lot of time on this blog criticizing police and Prosecutors. It isn't that I don't like them. It is that I think that since they represent the "people" I think they need to be held to a higher standard of conduct than any individual person.

When they "get it right" (and they do get it right far more often than not) however, I think they deserve to be acknowledged. Athol Police Officer Todd Neale managed to track down the missing girl by obtaining coordinates of her cell phone from the phone?s carrier and using Google Maps and Google World to locate the motel where she was being held.

Nice Job Officer Neale.

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Full post as published by That Lawyer Dude on January 08, 2009 (boomark / email).