A popular pastime among neighborhood watchdogs will soon go away here as local law enforcement agencies transition to encrypted radio communications. Both the Rochester Police Department and Olmsted ...

Police scanners fans can hear live police ... That means conversations might jump from channel to channel. However, P25 can unscramble trunked radio calls intercepted by a cheap SDR dongle ...

Police scanners fans can hear live police ... That means conversations might jump from channel to channel. However, P25 can unscramble trunked radio calls intercepted by a cheap SDR dongle ...

Calgary has been the only major Canadian city where police allowed news outlets to keep an ear on officer activity on the ...

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.

Try tuning into the police radio channel in Pasadena, Calif., and you’ll hear nothing but static. On Jan. 7, the Pasadena Police Department completed a transition to encrypted radio communications ...

Prior to Rochester law enforcement's decision to encrypt radio communications, police say suspects have downloaded a police ...

On Jan. 5, the Palo Alto Police Department switched all police radio communications to an encrypted channel to comply with a state requirement. Embarcadero Media file photo. In a sudden move that ...

Both the Rochester Police Department and Olmsted County Sheriff's Office will switch to encrypted channels for radio communications beginning Jan. 27. (Anthony Soufflé/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

But that won't be the case much longer. While some police radio channels have long been blocked from media monitoring — allowing officers to have private tactical discussions, for example ...