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Police code. A police code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States. Examples of police codes include "10 codes" (such as 10-4 for "okay" or "acknowledged"—sometimes written X4 or X-4), signals, incident codes, response codes, or ...
In the United States, response codes are used to describe a mode of response for an emergency unit responding to a call. They generally vary but often have three basic tiers: Code 3: Respond to the call using lights and sirens. Code 2: Respond to the call with emergency lights, but without sirens. Alternatively, sirens may be used if necessary ...
Ten-code. Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, are brevity codes used to represent common phrases in voice communication, particularly by US public safety officials and in citizens band (CB) radio transmissions. The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [1]
Home Office radio. Home Office radio was the VHF and UHF radio service provided by the British government to its prison service, emergency service ( police, ambulance and fire brigade) and Home Defence agencies from around 1939. The departmental name was the Home Office Directorate of Telecommunications, commonly referred to as DTELS.
Another woman says, "Units 25, 14 can transmit on Tac 2", and the dispatcher replies, "Okay, we'll still send it Code 3." Then an instrumental version of "Bad Boys" plays over the credits. [ 30 ] On the first season of Cops , instead of "132 and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint", it was a police radio excerpt from the Broward County, Florida ...
Computer, radio, paper. An all-points bulletin ( APB) is an electronic information broadcast sent from one sender to a group of recipients, to rapidly communicate an important message. [1] The technology used to send this broadcast has varied throughout time, and includes teletype, radio, computerized bulletin board systems (CBBS), and the ...
The police and military had the element of surprise timing their assault on the stockade for dawn on Sunday, the Christian Sabbath day of rest. The soldiers and police marched off in silence at around 3:30 am Sunday morning after the troopers had drunk the traditional tot of rum. [19] The British commander used bugle calls to coordinate his forces.
The 9/11 Commission Report, prepared by the 9/11 Commission, was released on July 22, 2004. A New York City Fire Department firefighter looks up at the remains of the South Tower on September 13, 2001, two days following the attacks An illustration of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center with a vertical view of the impact locations.