Constable Cassandra Lowe, left, and Detective Constable Anna Lang with a laptop that was recovered through hi-tech tracking software. Picture: MATT THOMPSON
HI-TECH "Robocop-style" tracking software has helped police track down an alleged computer thief and led to the return of a laptop containing treasured photos.
The laptop security software took a snapshot of the alleged thief as it was opened, the photo was then emailed to the owners who forwarded it to police who used it to track down the man and lay charges.
Rovsen and Adrian Giffard's Macbook Pro laptop was stolen, among other items, when a thief targeted their home in late August.
Police charged a male over the burglary but last month the alleged thief and others returned to the house and stole more items including the new Macbook Pro replaced by the couple's insurance.
More people were charged after the second burglary but none of the couple's items were returned until yesterday.
"It was extremely upsetting in the case of the first laptop," Mrs Giffard said.
"We were married in January and it had our wedding photos on it as well as a book I'd started writing.
"We were devastated and yes, we felt violated."
Working full-time, the travel agent and her retail manager husband had not had time to install a security system after the first burglary but Mrs Giffard took time off work to install a top-of-the-line security system after the second break-in.
Then last week, and more than two months after the first break-in, Mrs Giffard was at a restaurant when she received an email from the MacKeeper Anti-Theft software the couple had bought just a month before the first burglary.
"The email told us someone had logged on to the computer and the program had taken photos of that user and emailed them to us, along with GPS co-ordinates, which we immediately provided to police."
Police acted on the information, which pointed them to a suburb neighbouring the couple's Oakdowns residence.
"We conducted searches of several properties within the location provided and as a result seized the computer from a Rokeby home this morning," Detective Inspector Colin Riley said yesterday.
"This type of software is certainly helpful from our perspective and you would hope that those who might consider committing burglaries were deterred by the knowledge they can be tracked and photographed using the stolen item."
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