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A police radio 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 ...
Historically “10-codes” and “signal codes” were used when radios were less reliable and frequent repetition was required. These codes were rarely uniform even between local agencies. Most used “10-4” to mean “acknowledged”, for example, but some agencies used it as “message ends”.
The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [ 1 ] The codes, developed during 1937–1940 and expanded in 1974 by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO), allow brevity and standardization of message traffic.
This story has been updated to add more information and to add photos. FALL RIVER — Police Chief Paul Gauvin is stepping down from the position as the city’s top cop and being returned to his ...
The formalities included a police honor guard, well-wishers, and Furtado’s extensive family packing the Fall River Room on the sixth floor of Government Center to hear a few words and take photos.
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[1] [2] They originated in the late 1970s. [3] [4] IC codes refer to a police officer's visual assessment of the ethnicity of a person, and are used in the quick transmission of basic visual information, such as over radio. [4] They differ from self-defined ethnicity (SDE, or "18+1") codes, which refer to how a person describes their own ...