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The first police radio systems were implemented in Detroit in 1928, when the Detroit Police Department set up a one-way radio system to broadcast crime information to police cars. [2] The frequency was assigned the call sign "KOP" by the Federal Communications Commission .
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.
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 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 ...
The first signal report format code may have been QJS. [citation needed]The U.S. Navy used R and K signals starting in 1929. [citation needed]The QSK code was one of the twelve Q Codes listed in the 1912 International Radiotelegraph Convention Regulations, but may have been in use earlier.
Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...
Code 8: Fire reported in area of high fire hazard or threat to firefighting personnel Code 8-Adam: Units requested to scene of fire for traffic and crowd control; Code 10: Request to clear frequency for broadcast of wanted/warrant information; Code 12: Request to clear frequency for request for information on potential individual arrest warrant
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 ...