If you've been listening to your trusty old police scanner, you may be missing something: half the action. Douglas County in Minnesota has started broadcasting on a new digital frequency and some ...

Listening to police and fire calls used to be a pretty simple proposition: buy a scanner, punch in some frequencies — or if you’re old enough, buy the right crystals — and you’re off to the races. It ...

Three local cities are considering buying new radio frequencies to solve interference issues on a shared new digital police radio system. Hewitt and Lorena police departments joined the Woodway Public ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Did a recent switch from old-school analog to encrypted digital police radio channels make them harder to understand? The problem was highlighted during a shooting that wounded a ...

If you keep up on local fires, ambulance calls, car accidents and arrests with use of an analog radio scanner, you might have noticed lately that Corvallis Police Department radio traffic, at times, ...

Listening to Boston police radio transmissions over old-school scanner equipment will soon yield nothing but dead air. The Boston Police Department said Wednesday that it will convert its analog radio ...

Shifting from analog to an encrypted digital radio network has meant faster response times and a more secure connection for the New Zealand Police when co-ordinating emergencies such as the recent ...