Many of us were priced out of the police scanner hobby. Besides law enforcement, police scanners are mostly used by reporters who cover emergencies and hobbyists who want to know what’s ...

The Atherton police have just one radio communication channel and can’t switch to other frequencies to encrypt specific information, he said. “It’s an unfunded mandate (and is) quite a ...

Encrypting makes the radio traffic understandable only by specially equipped police radios. For everyone else, the police frequencies are now silent. Other police departments in the area are now ...

Calgary has been the only major Canadian city where police allowed news outlets to keep an ear on officer activity on the ...