Seeing the red lights flashing behind you while driving on the highway can immediately make your heart sink, so it's no ...

More than a dozen law enforcement agencies — from Overland Park to Prairie Village — will be encrypting their primary channels so listeners can't hear what police and dispatchers are saying over the ...

(TNS) — The ability for the public and media to listen to police scanner activity may come to an end or be drastically altered when Pennsylvania's Luzerne County implements a new 911 radio upgrade.

U.S. smartphone users are downloading police scanner apps in record numbers amid protests taking place across the country in the wake of George Floyd's murder, according to mobile-app data analysis ...

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 ...

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 ...

My passing adolescent dream of owning a police scanner was fulfilled recently when I learned that one may now download free software that performs the same function. Does police scanning have ...

The Honolulu City Council passed Bill 46 Wednesday, which would require the Honolulu Police Department to release certain public information to the public and the media.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The public may no longer be able to listen to Denver police radio communications if the department moves forward with a proposal to encrypt all of its radios ...

Police radio communications have been public ever since the Detroit Police Department began broadcasting one-way transmissions to mobile officers on station KOP in the 1920s. In fact, in those early ...