....releease this image of Madeline McCann as soon as it was reported? (GPS Tracking a solution to consider)

As a Dad every time you see or read about this story, it makes you sick in your stomach.

Especially when you see an image like this, which the Portuguese police were allegedly notified about, less than 24 hours after her disappearance.

My wife has always thought i was nuts when i first started talking about chip and pining the kids. that was even before Maddy. Now even more so, they're going to get some tracking software until they reach 18 yrs old.

I've been looking into GPS tracking for some time now.

there's 4 solutions key solutions (detailed below), but for a good overview read these 2 links first:-

gps tracking
and a good Guardian article about it here

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Based Devices like The BrickHouse Child Locator alert you to a wandering child and helps locate them with a hand held unit. This kind of system can find children quickly within a range of 300 to 600 Feet.

Simple Audio Alert Units like Mommy I'm Here feature a cute Teddy Bear Receiver your child wears, triggers a loud 56 DB intermittent chirp/beeping sound when the parent pushes a button on the hand held remote.

GPS Logging Devices such as the PocketTrack will tell you where your child has been after you download the data collected on the GPS Logger to your PC to view the maps and data.

GPS Real Time Tracking Systems like the TrimTracXS ideal for monitoring the whereabouts of teen drivers enables you to log on to the Internet and see where your child is at any moment. There have been attempts to develop a Real Time GPS Unit the size of a wristwatch for children, but so far battery life and other issues have made this system unreliable. We continue to work on finding a system to fit this need.