Brussels police to set out ‘bait-bikes’ to reduce thefts

October 27, 2017

Thanks to a GPS chip hidden inside the bait-bike, police are able to track and catch the thief. /dpa

Two Brussels police zones will be given bait-bikes equipped with GPS trackers and use them to catch bicycle thieves. The justice deems the method to be legal. “Lately, the Dutch Tilburg University published a study reveiling that the number of bicycle thefts in the municipalities using bait-bikes had decreased by 40% in one year”, explains

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