On a number of courses recently, during both Kidnap Risk Reduction and Security Technology workshops, some delegates have pressed the instructor to provide more information about a revolutionary tracking device they have read about – a minute satellite receiver/transmitter, about the size of a grain or rice, which can apparently be injected under the skin to provide real-time GPS updates of a person’s position, should be or she be kidnapped.Invariably, they stare at the instructor in disbelief when they are told that subcutaneous GPS transceivers do not yet exist, but that the device they have read about is really a subcutaneous RFID chip which communicates with a larger battery-powered GPS device, which has to be worn externally on the body – in many ways defeating the need for a subcutaneous device, and the inevitable “surgery” that the kidnappers will carry out in order to find the implant!
Selecting and specifying security technology is one of many subjects coverered during Security Management Stage 2, 13-24 October 2008. Click here for details.
