Please keep in mind that every police department chooses and governs how it communicates over its own radio system.  This may be beginning to change somewhat, with the federal government trying to forward the notion of "interoperability" between departments, but as a practical matter the department, i.e. The chief of police, really determines what shorthand, codes, … Read more

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