Until now, catching graffiti “artists” at their handicraft has been a daunting task.

Up steps GPS technology to betray the location of these ‘taggers’ who do cause millions of dollars of damage nation wide.

The term ‘tagging’ denotes the marks and signatures of mostly notorious artists and to set boundaries of gang territory..

Science has now found a way to reveal their location using GPS and hidden video and through a fascinating high frequency effect created by the spray can itself to locating there exact whereabouts. Here are a few stories and a video of the El Cajon police catching these ‘Picasso's” in the act.

New Regional Anti-Graffiti Campaign To Begin

A high-tech system to track graffiti and individual taggers is going to be used countywide for the first time, county officials announced Thursday.

The GPS-based Graffiti Tracker enters photographs of graffiti into a database, allowing law enforcement to keep track of individual vandals. That makes it easier for prosecutors to seek jail time and restitution after they're arrested.  Continue reading…

Police use GPS to catch taggers

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Psssst, wanna catch a tagger?

Satellites and super-sensitive sensors are now tuned to the sibilant hiss of spray cans in a space-age effort to eradicate one of the oldest and most persistent urban problems -- graffiti.

TaggerTrap, a graffiti eradication system being tested in several California cities, uses global positioning system technology, cell phones and sensors that recognize the ultrasonic pitch of spray cans to alert police when vandals begin their work, representatives said.

"The tagger, when he pushes down on that spray can, he's calling police," said George Lerg, co-founder of TrapTec, the Escondido, California-based company that developed TaggerTrap.

The unique, ultrasonic tone emitted by aerosol paint cans trips the sensors, which signal a transmitter linked to a police cell phone or radio. The global positioning system pinpoints the location of the transmitter, Lerg said.

The portable sensors have a range of 100 feet in any direction.

WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE EL CAJON POLICE OFFICERS NABBING ARTIST IN THE ACT