Police Slang Heard on the Police Scanner
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Police Scanners are great devices. They can also be helpful too in dangerous, life threatening situations. Police use their radios to communicate with dispatch with what is going on. Police scanners simply pick up that frequency and you can listen to the cops! Cool, huh?
Well, police generally use many codes and signals. If you do not know what they mean, it is just like talking gibberish. I have had my scanner for almost a year and have heard a lot of codes and signals. I want to help people understand their police scanners better, so that’s why I created this hub. All of these that follow I heard on my scanner (and they aren’t just off some dumb website!)
Codes
There are many codes. In fact the ten-code system is the system with all the codes like ’10-4’ and codes like that. There are MANY ten codes, so I will just list the ones you will hear on your scanner most frequently.
10-4: Affirmative, OK, Received
10-1: Radio is static or basically, ‘we can’t hear you on your radio’
10-2: Radio = good reception
10-6: Busy
10-7: Out of service, ending duty
10-8: Back in service, beginning duty
10-9: Repeat last message, Repeat message last unit
10-15: Arrested, taken into custody
10-20: Location, Usually you will hear, “Hey 869, whats your 20?”
10-27 and 10-29: Check up on a name, warrants
10-28: Check a LC (license plate)
10-51: Wrecker needed
Signals
Signals are just like codes except signals are more like events rather than actions. Here, you will see what I mean:
Signal 10 – Backup, backup another unit and/or another police dept.
Signal 53/63 – Check up on a residential/commercial building
Signal 40 – Stopped by for a sec
These are most of the codes and signals you will hear on your scanner. No need in posting all the others because you will rarely hear them. I hope I helped you in understanding your police scanner better!
Below are my other hubs on police scanners. Thanks,
--John
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My hubs on Police Scanners
- Everything To Know About Police Scanners
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Police Scanning for Dummies Everyone at least once in their lifetime will hear this phrase from someone: “You will never guess what I heard on my police scanner last night!! Dude it was... - A Review of the Pro-164 1000 Channel Handheld Police Scanner
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Comments
Yeah, it can be neat and it is! Haha, yeah I have heard a drug bust on my scanner too. Its so much fun to listen and see how they do everything, ya know.
If someone would have told me 10 years ago...you will be living in Montana and have a police scanner, I would have thought and told them they were INSANE!!! Well, I do and I do!!! We have no local news stations and our paper comes out once per week, so news travels by word of mouth her most often or by scanner. We have it on until we head for bed at night.... My only complaint: not knowing the "end of the story!" So often you hear and get involved with what's going on, then it's over and you rarely know how it all turned out!!! Some folks in town become true addicts!!! I'm not there yet :-)!
Haha! Thats must be a really cool small town! I know, I keep mine on til I go to bed too. I dont like that either when you dont here the end! Its like ah! what happened! I, myself, admit that I am an addict. I even created a group on facebook called Police Scanner Addicts, lol. Thanks for the comment
Just got my scanner but can tell i am already hooked. Just need to learn the codes and lingo better.
Yeah! May I ask, what will you be listening to? Like a big city? What city? I might can find the frequncies and teach you how to imput them.
Where would I find a site for scanner addicts? My wife listens to the scanner all night long and it wakes me when an alert sounds.
If your on FaceBook, you can join my group "Police Scanner Addicts" or I also have a website I made for my police scanner stuff. Its policescannerstuff.webs.com
brad4l says:
5 months ago
It really can be neat to listen to the police scanner. I can't remember the name of the site I came across a few weeks ago, but it let you listen to real time local police radios. While I was listening, they were setting up an undercover bust with an informer and everything...