Surely there has to be a more cost efficient way to deal with petty theft?

Beyond retarded, in fact criminal, stealing my tax money.

[link to www.smh.com.au]

Like a scene from a TV crime show, Victorian police have used an iPhone GPS app and a helicopter to track down a thief.

His crime? Stealing the mobile phone.

Police pulled out all stops to nab the thief who stole a woman's iPhone from a hospital in suburban Heidelberg, in Melbourne's northeast, on Tuesday afternoon.