18/01/2011 Businessman Alejandro Martí, president of the Foundation Observation System for Citizen Security (SOS), asked the telephone companies operating in the country to implement mechanisms to locate by geolocation the cell phones used in kidnappings and extortion.
"The telephone companies must implement the necessary systems for geolocation, because if we leave it to the authorities, everyone will continue to distrust," he said.
"They would have an obligation to have the necessary technology to cancel (numbers)," he added.
He urged Congress to "rethink the law" and demand technological cooperation from telephone companies.
The president of SOS said in an interview with ELUNIVERSAL, that "the only weapon you (the citizen) have to locate the call is through the antennas, which are not precise, but simply determine where it was spoken."
He regretted that the authorities "ignored" this proposal when the National Registry of Mobile Phone Users (Renaut) was discussed.
Alejandro Martí mentioned that the organization headed by Isabel Miranda de Wallace, Stop the Kidnapping, also shares this premise to track telephone numbers from which extortion and kidnappings are made.
Hours earlier, the businessman wrote on his Twitter account: "When they capture a kidnapper he always brings several of these chips. The solution was to require geolocation. The law must be corrected!"
According to an investigation published by this newspaper, in the informal market chips already registered in the Renaut are for sale, which are worth at least 70 pesos and come with 90 pesos of airtime and 200 pesos of deferred.
Source: eluniversal.com.mx
