Tracking starts with the vehicle
A vehicle is the single most predictable thing about a target. It reveals home, office, routine, meetings and associations — a complete pattern of life — from one small device. For anyone building a picture of an executive’s movements, the car is the cheapest and richest place to start.
The vehicle is also the easiest asset to reach. It sits unattended in car parks, is handed to valets and service technicians, and is often shared across a pool. Every one of those moments is an opportunity to plant a device in seconds and recover it — or its data — later. Physical access to a car is far simpler to obtain than access to a boardroom, which is exactly why adversaries prefer it.
Vehicle sweeps — GPS tracker detection and in-car bug detection in one engagement — find the tracking and listening devices planted in and on vehicles, from the executive’s car to an entire corporate fleet, across Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Takoradi.
What we find in vehicles
We inspect the vehicle inside and out. GPS trackers turn up in wheel wells, bumpers and under the chassis, magnetically attached or hardwired into the vehicle’s power. Others draw from the OBD-II diagnostic port — plugged in within seconds, reporting location continuously, and easily mistaken for a legitimate accessory.
Audio transmitters concealed in the cabin capture conversations held in what most people treat as a private space. We check wiring harnesses, power lines, interior trim, and every plausible concealment point, combining physical search with RF detection to surface devices that are dormant or transmitting only intermittently.
GPS tracker detection and car tracker detection in Ghana
Vehicle trackers fall into three families, and each hides in a different part of the car. Magnetic battery-powered units sit inside wheel arches, behind bumpers, under the chassis or in the boot lining, and sleep while the car is parked. Hardwired units are spliced into the vehicle’s own wiring behind the dashboard, under a seat or near the fuse box, so they never run out of power and can be very small. OBD-II plug-in trackers draw power from the diagnostic port under the dashboard and are easily mistaken for a legitimate accessory. A fourth device — an in-cabin audio transmitter — is often planted at the same time.
Consumer bug detectors miss most of them. A tracker that sleeps while the vehicle is stationary has nothing for a handheld detector to hear, and when it does report it sends a short burst over the mobile network that looks exactly like a phone checking its messages. A detector has no baseline, so it cannot tell what is new.
Our GPS tracker detection takes the RF map with the vehicle stationary and, where appropriate, with the ignition on and the vehicle moving, so a device that wakes only on movement must show itself against a recorded baseline. We check every point a device could draw power from — the OBD-II port, the fuse box, the battery terminals and the wiring harnesses — because a hardwired unit must connect somewhere; thermal imaging reveals a powered module behind trim or under a seat by the heat it cannot switch off; and the interior, boot and exterior concealment points are examined by hand. A car left with a garage in Accra or Tema for servicing, a pool vehicle shared across managers, a driver who is not the only person with the keys: each is a gap in control, and each is where the search begins. If a tracker is found during a divorce, custody or business dispute, it is photographed and documented in place rather than ripped off, because the device and its position may matter as evidence. Our guide to finding a GPS tracker on your car covers the self-check and its limits.
Fleet programs
For organizations moving executives, cash or sensitive cargo, a single clean vehicle is not enough. We run fleet programs that sweep vehicles on a recurring schedule and after any period a vehicle has been outside trusted control — valet, service, long-term parking or shared use. Consistent cadence closes the window in which a freshly planted tracker can operate unnoticed.
Each swept vehicle is documented: what was inspected, what was found and where. Over time that record turns individual sweeps into an intelligence picture of its own, showing which vehicles and which circumstances draw repeated attention — and where your operational security needs to tighten first.