Patent ID: 7015792

Claim:
A method for identifying whether a vehicle has been stolen, the method comprising: detecting a usage of said vehicle for its transportation from one location to another, through wireless communication with a unit in the vehicle; requesting, at the unit in the vehicle, an identification from an identification device; if said identification is received automatically and without user intervention, comparing said identification with an internal identification setting; if said internal identification setting does not match said received identification or if said identification is not received, emitting an alert message comprising information concerning said vehicle in a predetermined communication range of said vehicle; receiving said alert message at a police car unit installed in a displaceable police car, when said police car is within said predetermined communication range of said vehicle; and indicating said information concerning said vehicle at said police car unit; whereby a thief of said vehicle is unaware of the request for said identification and the vehicle is identified as a stolen vehicle and can be stopped by a police officer circulating in said displaceable police car without an intervention of an owner of said stolen vehicle.