Click to play videoMexico: As the crime rate surges in Mexico, a leading security firm, Xega has designed and developed microchips to help locate and trace kidnap victims.
Wealthy Mexicans are planting chips under their skin to help police trace them if they are kidnapped.
They are in fact spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters so that satellites can help trace them if they are tied up in a house or stuffed in the trunk of a car.
These chips can be injected into the clients bodies with a syringe.
However, all this does not come cheap. A potential user has to shell out about 4000 dollars and an annual fee of 2,200 dollars for each chip.
Considering the fact that Mexico has the highest kidnapping rates in the world, the money is well spent.
The company injects the crystal-encased chip, the size and shape of a grain of rice, into clients' bodies with a syringe.
A transmitter then sends signals via satellite to pinpoint the location of a person in trouble.
Most people get the chips injected into their arms between the skin and muscle where they cannot be seen.
Customers who fear they are being kidnapped press a panic button on an external device to alert Xega which then calls the police.
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