AfricaPress-mozambique: The government is to acquire technology allowing it to track the victims of kidnappings, as well as the kidnappers themselves, Carta de Moçambique reports.
Sources at Sernic (National Criminal Investigation Service) told ‘Carta’ that the system could be rolled out nationwide within days.
The sources explain that the technology notifies an operations centre of any jammer (signal blocker), such as criminals often use to make it difficult to track vehicles.
This technology will help the country to combat the kidnappings that have seen 12 people held to ransom in the cities of Maputo, Matola, Beira, Chimoio and Quelimane in the first six months of this year alone.
The technology, according to sources, even allows tracking of money and the recovery of information from a mobile phone, even if it has been reformatted or damaged.
Authorities last week presented five individuals accused of involvement in the kidnapping of an Indian businessman residing in the city of Maputo. Among the alleged kidnappers were two Sernic agents and one from the Police of the Republic of Mozambique.
Sernic spokesman in Maputo, Hilário Lole, said on that occasion that the group had demanded a ransom of US$600,000, an amount that was not paid by the family
