KSP uses text messaging with victim in car to make arrest of Fulton man

Kentucky State Police recently utilized a text messaging feature of their computer aided dispatch system to intercept a domestic abuse case as it was occurring in a moving vehicle.

Last Friday,  KSP received multiple 911 calls from the same number, but telecommunicators were unable to hear anyone on the other end of the line. 

Telecommunicators initiated a text conversation with the caller through their computer-aided dispatch system.  

The female caller texted that she had been physically assaulted and was currently in a vehicle with the person who had assaulted her. 

She texted that the microphone on her phone did not work and the person who assaulted her did not know she had called 911.  

The caller texted that she was pregnant and the male who was driving had made statements that he intended to wreck, causing harm to the female and the unborn child.

Telecommunicators obtained a vehicle description and attempted to determine their location, but the caller texted that the male broke her glasses during the assault, and she could not see to provide a location. 

Telecommunicators then utilized Rapid SOS and Rapid Deploy, two state-of-the-art pieces of technology that use real time mapping and transmit health information and emergency contact information from a victim's phone to the 911 operator. 

Telecommunicators pinpointed the car's location and relayed information to KSP troopers and Fulton County Sheriff's deputies, who stopped the vehicle on I-69 two miles before the Tennessee state line.