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This website is operated by the Integrated Municipal Provincal Auto Crime Team (IMPACT) which is based in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Our team consists of twenty-two specialized police auto theft investigators from seven police forces in the Greater Vancouver Area. The mandate of IMPACT is to develop innovative strategies to reduce auto crime in British Columbia - this website is just one of those strategies. IMPACT is currently operating four major initatives: the Bait Car program, Automated Licence Plate Recognition, the stolen vehicle Enforcement Team and Stolen Vehicle Identification.

IMPACT operates and manages the Bait Car Program for the Greater Vancouver area and Vancouver Island - which is now the largest Bait Car fleet in North America. The Vancouver Police Department operate their own bait car program for the actual City of Vancouver, but IMPACT provides bait cars for the surrounding 16 municipalities plus Vancouver Island. Stay tuned for a possible expansion to the interior of BC.

A bait car is a vehicle owned by the police and is intended to be stolen. After a bait car is stolen, the location, speed, and direction of travel of the vehicle is monitored by police dispatchers at EComm through GPS tracking. Everything that takes place inside the bait car is caught on audio and video. The dispatcher will coordinate a police response and once officers are in position behind the bait car, the engine will be disabled at the click of a mouse button which allows for the quick arrest of the car thieves.

http://www.baitcar.com/

The videos are pretty slow to download but well worth the wait.