Tracking device introduced in Accra (30/04/09)

A car and property tracking security device to help curb crime and protect property in the country has been launched in Accra.
The Tramigo T22 GPS/GSM device, enables busy business owners, companies, transport owners, taxi owners and drivers to track, control and monitor their vehicles and assets simply from their GSM phone.
The Tramigo T22 was designed to report a range of vital information, such as location, speed and duration of trips by any vehicle (including boats, trucks, etc.) directly to an authorised mobile phone.
It also generates journey reports and monitors the usage of vehicles by advising when the ignition of a vehicle is switched on and off.
Launching the device yesterday, the Minister of Transport, Mr Mike Hammah, said the technology could not have come at any better time than now.
“The product certainly has come in good time to support and enhance some of the measures recently introduced by the Ministry of Transport and the National Road Safety Commission, including the use of log books in all commercial vehicles to help check [speeding] by tracking when vehicles depart their operational terminals and when they arrive at their destinations,” he said.
Mr Hammah noted that the crime prevention benefit of the product in enabling owners to demobilise their vehicles when stolen would go a long way to curb the numerous reported cases of snatching and stealing of cars by armed robbers in homes and the streets.
He said as the country envisaged to make Ghana the gateway to Africa and the subregion, issues of security could not be overlooked as it remained a major factor in attracting or otherwise turning away foreign investors, travellers, tourists and foreign capital.
He was hopeful that all road transport stakeholders, the general public and the security agencies especially the Ghana Road Transport Co-ordinating Council, would take advantage of the technology to bring about some level of safety and security in the society.
The Chief Executive Officer of Proffworld Link Consult (PLC), the main distributors of the device, Mr Hugh K. Aryee, said his company would collaborate with the Ghana Police Service to enhance security in the country.