Tempe Police Department: Cell-site Simulator
A Harris Corporation Stingray II cell-site simulator.
Credit: USPTO
| Agency | Tempe Police Department |
| Location | Tempe, AZ |
| Technology | Cell-site Simulator |
| Vendor | Harris Corp. |
The Tempe Police Department acquired cell-site simulator technology from Harris Corp. in 2012, according to research by Kevin Collier for Vocativ.
Links
News article (Vocativ)
News dataset (Kevin Collier)
Public records (Muckrock)
Other (info.publicintelligence.net)
More about this technology
Cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.
A Harris Corporation Stingray II cell-site simulator.
Credit: USPTO