emergency cellphone calls

[scue]

if you get kidnapped, blindfolded and tied up (yet allowing ability to access your pocket and dial/talk on your phone?) in somebody's basement and you call the cops, can they track where you are?

[mapleleaf4ever]

You planning on kidnapping someone?

[Play-it-hard]

hahaha ^^


No I don't think they can track you

[craz_e_blossom]

I think they can...Considering the emergency call feature on my phone still works when you are out in the boonies and next to no reseption at all...
I learnt from not locking my phone... :s

[mapleleaf4ever]

Technically the Police or Department of Communications can use what is known as RF Triangulation to determine your Location to a particular Cell Tower. But that is as close as they can get. Unless your phone is GPS enabled of course, which there are more of these days.

[Pennywise]

yay! Mine is GPS enabled!

THEY WILL FIND ME! lol

[dangamouse]

think if your going to go to the trouble and take on the risks involved with kiddnaping, then your going to remember to remove cell phones, pagers etc from that person.

having your cell tracked would help if you fell down a hole or something

[Kenny]

Theres gotta be some way they can track it...

[thebobman]

"Hello? 911? This is Dave Chappelle, some men are trying to kill me! AH!.... eeeeuh.... aw, I just shit myself..... I can't stop cryin'...."

[mapleleaf4ever]

Originally Posted by Kenny

Theres gotta be some way they can track it...

Only to the Cell that you're in. Like I said, unless it's GPS enabled... then they have you to within I believe 10m.

[galaxie]

YES

Most cells have the ability to be a GPS. For a monthly fee, you can have GPS on your phone ALL the time (like, for example, if a company wants to track the whereabouts of their employees). However, if you don't select the option, it is only enabled when an emergency call is placed.

Pretty fucking awesome if you ask me!

[nabs]

gps is handy in situations like this. but, sadly, i dont belive older phones have the abiltiy to be tracked.

BUT the police dont have a system to track locations of cell phones calls, they would have to have a gps mapper.
So i dont think its possible. all that shows up on the police screen is your phone number, and probably the name associated with it. i doubt it will tell the police if you GPS in ur phone.

[ebbomega]

If your cell phone is lacking GPS, they can at the very least track which general area you happen to be in. I think up to 100m squared, but don't quote me on that.

I remember reading about it in a cool thriller book called f2f by Philip finch damn near a decade ago. The technology may have improved since then but I know that what they spoke of then was accurate to the technology of the times.

Fucked up cool book about pre-internet online stalking (using BBS's and stuff). Really keen book, Highly recommend to anybody.

[mapleleaf4ever]

Originally Posted by nabs

gps is handy in situations like this. but, sadly, i dont belive older phones have the abiltiy to be tracked.

BUT the police dont have a system to track locations of cell phones calls, they would have to have a gps mapper.
So i dont think its possible. all that shows up on the police screen is your phone number, and probably the name associated with it. i doubt it will tell the police if you GPS in ur phone.

All the Police have to do is talk to your provider and they (under proper warrant of course) can provide them with the Cell that your phone is in. The Companies have a Map of the Cells. So finding you withing that radius isn't that bad; depending on where of course. lol

ebbo: Yeah, It depends a lot on how many cells and line of sight etc.

[Ms.Tarantula]

Originally Posted by thebobman

"Hello? 911? This is Dave Chappelle, some men are trying to kill me! AH!.... eeeeuh.... aw, I just shit myself..... I can't stop cryin'...."

ha.. I loved his calm version.. ''991? HI... how ya doin.. ya, there's a group of hooded white men outside and it looks like they mean business... (GET OUT HERE ******!!) *sigh* I gotta go..''