The change is part of a $72 million emergency radio system overhaul that officials say will improve coverage, safety and reliability.

Police scanners are a familiar sound in newsrooms, but come Friday, Greenville police dispatch will go silent on scanners ...

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.

The real-time communications ... on social media. Radio traffic provides critical insight into the circumstances of the initial emergency response, as well as what police say and observe while ...

Given that such radio traffic has been publicly accessible in California since the 1920s, Becker has argued, there’s no ...

The move to encryption has been seen around the Twin Cities: Minneapolis’ main emergency-response communications channels ...

The Minneapolis Police Department has started encrypting its two-way radio communications. That means you’ll no longer be able to use a scanner or smartphone app to listen in on police.

with the city now rolling out encryption on police radio traffic. In a statement, the city said encrypting emergency communications helps ensure compliance with state privacy laws and federal law ...

The change is part of a $72 million emergency radio system overhaul that officials say will improve coverage, safety and reliability. EVERETT — Police radio communications across Snohomish ...

In the 1930s, the New Jersey State Police’s Statewide Police Teletype System was developed to provide instant communications ...