Minneapolis police will go silent on radio scanners next week as the department and 911 dispatchers move to encrypted ...

Of course, old-fashioned scanners were often used to listen to police and fire radios. Those have all gone trunked these days. This isn’t a new idea, but it did seem like a well-packaged solution.

Lynne Crockett has relied upon her mobile police scanner to stay informed about crime in her neighborhood. The real-time ...

That’s when I remembered I had a Midland ER310 Emergency Radio that I’d previously tested for a guide on emergency preparedness essentials. Once I tuned it to a weather channel, I was glued to ...

Police radio communications can sometimes ... "The dramatic rise in the use of social media and scanner apps to track first responders jeopardizes emergency response operations and can lead ...

Minneapolis has launched a 911 Emergency Incidents Dashboard and is working to encrypt emergency response radio channels.