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The Hundred Code is a three-digit police code system. [3] This code is usually pronounced digit-by-digit, using a radio alphabet for any letters, as 505 "five zero five" or 207A "two zero seven Alpha". The following codes are used in California. They are from the California Penal Code except where noted below. [4] [better source needed]
Radios in the 1930s were based on vacuum tubes powered by a small motor-generator called a dynamotor. The dynamotor took from 1/10 to 1/4 of a second to "spin up" to full power. Police officers were trained to push the microphone button, then pause briefly before speaking; however, sometimes they would forget to wait.
The first two-way police radio system was implemented by the Bayonne, New Jersey police in 1933. [4] [5] The FCC briefly prohibited police radio communications in 1934, but rescinded their decision in 1935. [2] Due to their cost and size, early police radio systems were only used in police cars and buildings; officers on foot patrol still had ...
The NYPD has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and the public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such communications on ...
A signal strength and readability report is a standardized format for reporting the strength of the radio signal and the readability (quality) of the radiotelephone (voice) or radiotelegraph (Morse code) signal transmitted by another station as received at the reporting station's location and by their radio station equipment. These report ...
The APCO phonetic alphabet, a.k.a. LAPD radio alphabet, is the term for an old competing spelling alphabet to the ICAO radiotelephony alphabet, defined by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International [1] from 1941 to 1974, that is used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other local and state law enforcement agencies across the state of California and ...
The York County Chiefs of Police Association discussed with York County making the police calls private to protect the personal information that was broadcast over the radio, said Ted Czech ...
The Miami Police Department says it’s reviewing the radio communication. ‘You’ve destroyed this police department’: Retiring Miami cop vents in radio sign-off Skip to main content