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Law enforcement communications will be encrypted, keeping to-the-second updates about police whereabouts and breaking news situations private and off of public police scanners in a move law ...

The NYPD has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and the public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such communications on an ...

In most newsrooms, a scanner that picks up on local police and fire communications provides a constant stream of background noise that often prompts reporters to leap into action when they hear ...

Fundraising goal Champion's Crusaiders Rescue hopes to raise $8,000 to supply local police with 28 animal microchip scanners and two leather slip leads per police vehicle. The digital scanners will be ...