we asked a department spokesman, sergeant kirk stenderup, for more details about the plan. >> sergeanttenderup, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> why did your department need the stingray device? >> so it all started back in 2012 when we had a kidnapping case down in south county. a young guy, teenage girl goes missing on her way to school. deputies get a report of that, the first question they ask to the mother, does your daughter have a cell phone in and of course yes. so we immediately contacted the cell phone company through our existing communication lines and tried to locate that cell phone. we actually spent the next two days trying to find it. little did we know that we located her about a quarter mile from her residence in the field. but it really brought to the forefront this topic of being able to locate cell phones in these emergency situations or when we need to find an armed and dangerous criminal. we brought that to the forefront. and here we are three years later trying to acquire this device so that we can have a better tool and a better resource to keep the c