The NYPD is set to fully encrypt its radio broadcasts by the end of next year as part of a nearly $400 million planned system upgrade — setting off alarm among local politicians and press advocates.

Police 10-codes came about due to a need for brevity and comprehension on cluttered radio bands and were quickly adopted elsewhere.

Police NYPD Will Spend Nearly $400 Million to Hide its Radio Communications NYPD radio frequencies have been open to the public since 1932. A new encrypted system will end that.

Hewitt soon will switch to new digital police radio frequencies to solve ongoing interference problems on its current channels. Hewitt City Council on Monday approved an interlocal agreement to ...

Hewitt will soon switch to new digital police radio frequencies to solve ongoing interference problems on its current channels. The city council on Monday approved an interlocal agreement to use a ...

At San Diego Police Headquarters downtown, the radio system screen displays the frequencies that have recently been converted to the encrypted system. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune) ...

The decades-old practice of using numerical codes on police radio frequencies is on the way to being 10-7. The federal government is urging public safety agencies to stop using the codes and the ...

Police supervisors here are translating some of the greatest works of the Spanish language using police radio codes. So Macondo, García Márquez's mystical Colombian village, is a "22." ...