New initiative announced in effort to decrease Cook County carjackings, vehicle thefts

CHICAGO (WLS) — The Prepare dinner County Sheriff’s Workplace introduced a brand new initiative Thursday in River North to cut back harmful automotive thefts and carjackings within the space.

The sheriff’s workplace is making an attempt to fight carjacking, they usually’ve added a brand new approach that would probably observe your automotive sooner.

With carjackings on the rise, the sooner officers observe your stolen automobile the higher.

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Prepare dinner County Sheriff Tom Dart labored to create laws requiring auto producers present officers with particulars about any monitoring capabilities if a automotive is stolen, with the automotive proprietor’s permission.

One other element to make issues simpler was introduced Thursday. You can provide that permission on-line, on a brand new web site that can have automotive house owners digitally signal a monitoring consent type, permitting your automotive’s producer to launch that info to police sooner.

When you give your permission, you will get sheriff’s workplace stickers within the mail.

Sheriff Dart outlined this new web site and its potential affect on reducing carjackings throughout the county at 10 a.m.