(TNS) — Full public access to police scanner activity in the East Bay will soon be unavailable after Berkeley councilmembers gave the city’s police department permission to encrypt radio ...

Scanner Radio is an Android app that lets you listen to live police radio, fire radio, and weather radio as well as amateur radio streams from around the world. There are over 2,000 channels available ...

For decades, police radio communications were one of the few ways the public and the press could independently understand ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Those in the Peoria area who listen to police radio traffic on their phones or on radio scanners heard silence Tuesday. The silence was due to the planned encryption of the main ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis will cease public broadcasts of its police radio communications starting in May and shift to online dashboards for the public to track emergency incident responses. In a news ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - If you own a police scanner, starting Friday, the Greenville Police Department will transition to a fully encrypted radio system, meaning you won’t be able to hear officer ...

In October I wrote a piece about monitoring public safety radio in 2020 using police scanners, digital and analog. It’s worth noting that there is still a fair amount of radio communication on the air ...

The Boston Police Department’s decision to digitally encrypt its radio transmissions might not seem like something worth our attention in the Berkshires. Nonetheless, when the head of the New England ...