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A police code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States. Examples of police codes include " 10 codes " (such as 10-4 for "okay" or "acknowledged"—sometimes written X4 or X-4), signals, incident codes, response codes , or other ...
The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [ 1 ] The codes, developed during 1937–1940 and expanded in 1974 by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO), allow brevity and standardization of message traffic.
602 was the original area code for Arizona, and was split in 1995 into 602, serving metropolitan Phoenix, and 520, serving the remainder of the state. [1] In 1999, 602 was split into 480, 602, and 623, [2] which were recombined in 2023. [3] 520 was split in 2001 to form area code 928. [4]
Public radio KNAD: 91.7 FM: Page: AZ Board of Regents for N. AZ Univ. Public radio KNAG: 90.3 FM: Grand Canyon Village: Arizona Board of Regents/Northern Arizona University: Public radio KNAI: 860 AM: Phoenix: Farmworker Educational Radio Network, Inc. Regional Spanish KNAQ: 89.3 FM: Prescott: Northern Arizona University: Public radio KNAU: 88. ...
More cities are shifting course on the decades-old practice of keeping police, fire and dispatch radio traffic open to all in real time.
The city of Phoenix minus Ahwatukee and areas north of Union Hills Drive remained in 602, along with slivers of Tempe and Glendale. Most of the East Valley, along with Town of Paradise Valley and north Phoenix east of 22nd Street, took area code 480. Most of the West Valley, plus all of Phoenix north of Union Hills, was placed into area code 623.
Police say the man was spotted near the George Washington Bridge and George Washington Port Authority bus terminal at 178th Street around 45 minutes after the shooting.
Police radio systems historically used public radio frequencies, and listening to them was, for the most part, legal. Most modern police radio systems switched to encrypted radio systems in the 1990s and 2000s to prevent eavesdroppers from listening in.