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Cell Site Analysis and Cracking Crime

How mobile communications, via cell site analysis, has played a successful role in fighting crime

Fact: when you switch your mobile phone on, somebody else could trace your whereabouts. There are now ‘find my phone’ tracer apps which are good for tracing lost mobile phones. This is only half of the story. In forensics, we use what is known as Cell Site Analysis. This enables us to trace the whereabouts of a given person at the scene of a crime.