A retired officer may be familiar on how its supposed to work, but doubtful he would speak for EVERY LEO in the country.
It is NOT an individual LEO thing, it's a company thing. It is how Lo-Jack works. It works the same in Sacramento as it does in New York City, and the alphanumeric code is only activated when the vehicle has been entered into SVS. Even if a code is accidentally triggered, absent a paired stolen vehicle report in SVS (the national stolen vehicle database in NCIC), it would not come back as valid and there would be no reason to try and triangulate ... not to mention they would not know what they are looking for.
My comment was about my incident only. The device on my vehicle was transmitting that it was stolen, thus a defective unit. This came from the manufacturer, not a policeman.
If so, it is as I previously mentioned, it is a code that is so much meaningless gobblygook, or, it is a code of another stolen vehicle (which would seem pretty odd, but would also be a vehicle with a different description and likely would not result in your vehicle being stopped). It would also run out of juice over time. (Yes, they can lose power when they have been activated.)
Your comments reflect your ignorance of things not being perfect. I do know there are many parts of the country where Lo/Jack is unavailable. Thus I doubt LE would know much about their operation and have any procedures for them.
And in those parts of the country, they would not even be able to see the errant device's code, much less act on it.
Many departments have gone away from it as it does not
seem to be nearly as popular as it was a couple of decades ago.