Watch the video: Police officers spot automatic sprinklers in the forest – using a thermal imaging camera.
Here automatic sprinklers are caught fleeing in the middle of the forest near Odenthal in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district.
Images from a thermal imaging camera, filmed from a police helicopter, show the police officers’ action.
Three men tried to blow up an ATM in Kierspe, North Rhine-Westphalia, on Wednesday night. Local residents alerted the police, and the suspects initially managed to escape in a sports car – at 160 kilometers per hour and with the police on their heels.
The car only comes to a standstill when the men run over a board of nails laid out by the police [KJ1] to go. They continue to flee on foot and hide in a forest.
There, the police can use a thermal imaging camera to locate the men from the helicopter – and ultimately catch them.
Automatic explosions have been piling up for months. Meanwhile, the police in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, in cooperation with the police in the Netherlands, have successfully cracked down on an international gang that blows up ATMs in Germany. 13 people who live in the Netherlands and who are credited with around 50 crimes have now been arrested.