There was a time when it was easy to eavesdrop on police and other service radio networks. Police scanners fans can hear live police, fire, and ambulance calls. However, it isn’t as easy as it ...

[Harrison Sand] just finished a guide on how to use SDR to listen in on Police and Fire radio bands. The project, which results in the crystal clear audio reception heard after the break ...

Listen to live police and fire calls right here on Scanner ... Tuolumne and Amador counties as they happen. How it Works: Radio scanners rapidly rotate through a bank of pre-programmed frequencies ...

Once Calgary police pull the plug next month, no police radio activity in Canada's 10 biggest cities will be monitored by so-called "scanners," either by the public or the media. Citing privacy ...

Attewell said replacing the current police radios is urgent because any high street scanner can overhear them. However, he added: "Tetra has been tried and tested for emergency communications in ...

Dartmouth Police announced they've fully encrypted their radio communications ... traditional public police scanner broadcasts can expose sensitive information such as Social Security numbers ...

On Jan. 5, the Palo Alto Police Department switched all police radio communications to an encrypted ... on information picked up from a police scanner. When you donate to keep journalism local ...

Police scanners are actually legal to own and operate in the United States, because the radio frequencies used by law enforcement, like all U.S. radio frequencies, belong to the public.