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I really don't want to lower the tone of the forum or anything but I am very interested in radios and scanners. Ever since watching car chases and movies on TV I have always seen police and the convicts with various pieces of kit to aid the capture or the get away. As we all know police use radios to communicate with one another. But my questioning comes when I think:

1. Is it illegal to listen in to police radio?

2. Is there any device availible to fit the standard tape/cd slot in a car which is like a radio to listen in to the police?

3.Does anyone know where to get a radar detector (ie. so when a cop car is round the corner a little box on the dash goes crazy bleeping etc, which I have seen used in the BMW police car on the gumball rally, if anyone remebers).

 

Any suggestions.

 

And just for the record, I am a fully law abiding citizen who doesn't participate in any illegal dealings. I am just trying to keep my license and myself aswell as other road users safe. Kinda.

 

Thanks. Huwt4ng:)

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I really don't want to lower the tone of the forum or anything but I am very interested in radios and scanners. Ever since watching car chases and movies on TV I have always seen police and the convicts with various pieces of kit to aid the capture or the get away. As we all know police use radios to communicate with one another. But my questioning comes when I think:

1. Is it illegal to listen in to police radio?

2. Is there any device availible to fit the standard tape/cd slot in a car which is like a radio to listen in to the police?

3.Does anyone know where to get a radar detector (ie. so when a cop car is round the corner a little box on the dash goes crazy bleeping etc, which I have seen used in the BMW police car on the gumball rally, if anyone remebers).

 

Any suggestions.

 

And just for the record, I am a fully law abiding citizen who doesn't participate in any illegal dealings. I am just trying to keep my license and myself aswell as other road users safe. Kinda.

 

Thanks. Huwt4ng:)

 

id say its illegal to listen to police radio. not sure theres any device but there was one on fast and furious :D

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And just for the record, I am a fully law abiding citizen who doesn't participate in any illegal dealings. I am just trying to keep my license and myself aswell as other road users safe. Kinda

 

Don't speed then, and I think its common sense that to snoop on police is illegal, you can have a scanner but it must not have police stations on it

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When i was at school i had a friend who had something we could listen in on. All is ok, but then we listened into the people that said, its coming from the westley middle school area. We didnt really play with it from then on. lol!

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Since they are publicly broadcasting it, you are able to pick it up..... Transmitting however is a different issue...

 

They dont though, they broadcast on a different frequency that a normal AM/FM cannot pick up i believe that they go below 87.50 as my mate had one years ago he got stopped for a routine check and had it taken off him and checked that it had no police channels on it

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Ot is NOT illegal to listen to Police transmissions, but it its ILLEGAL to use the information gained or act on any infromation received from such a transmission.

 

However, the whole Police network, along with the other emergency services is being roled out to Airwave which is a national network hosted by O2. This network is secure, can't be scanned as its digital and no longer on uhf.

 

As for radar/laser scanners etc they are curently legal, but will be outlawed in the new road traffic bill which is currently going through Parliament.

Under new legislation you will ONLY be able to use GPS based systems which use data for known fixed camera sites and sites where safety partnership cameras are used on a regular (published) basis. Any active laser/radar scanner/detector will be a big no-no. There are other devices available which have a primary function to do one thing, but when adapted can be used to jam laser/radar as well. These will also be outlawed.

 

At the end of the day we still have a largely free society, what you choose to do is governed by the consequences if you get caught.

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