Can You Listen To The UK Police?

Ware I am from in Canada the Police, Ambulance and Fire all moved to the Encrypted Trunk system the year after I got my Uniden BCD436HP so that was a complete waste of money.

Italy old bill was gonna change standard of broadcast band never did ......

"Police will be migrating to 4G", as 4G is a mobile phone network, does this mean they'll just be using phones?

One day I was listening to the police, they were looking everywhere for a particular individual, then the control room came on saying thet had received a call from somone who had been listening, and that the individual they were seeking was at the back of a pub at.......
So the public listening to the police is not all bad
This could really be the case during majour disasters, when they probably could use all the help thay could get.
My thoughts is that the 'main' channel should be non-scrambled, but all the extra ones scrambled, so everyday traffic stuff etc. is easliy listened to, but any more involved stuff is not.

I remember listening to Australian police through a web site, they was so relaxed it was unbelievable, base station contacted car telling them about a location and a guy looking "suss". I listened to Australian ambulance, the driver said we just bringing the deceased out now, the base station went nuts, put them back n the house it's the coroner's job, so they put the body back.

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im in germany and i manage to decode the local police via hackrf one airspy studio and a decoder in airspy studio

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Didn't they change in 87 because of the hungerford massacre?

I once took a scanner to a friends house in manchester, the plan was to chill and listen to the rozzers which went well… we also ended up tuning into strangeways nick for a while too.

lol if you join the police

Here’s the real question can the police listen to you? If u have a smart phone

Remember the old black and white tvs that you'd tune yourself. They could pick up all sorts.

900Mhz analog cell phones were always much more fun than the police! (so i'm told) 🙂

£40 for a realistic brand scanner from Tandy in the uk you were good to go back in the days.

Very clever lad….knows his stuff….

I can confirm airways is useless. Drops out all the time. Also the mapping system on it is awful.

As a service engineer when we moved from 2 way radio we adopted dolphin telecom which is the first tetra band. Big old handset. Battery terrible , patchy coverage . Then mobile phones became viable shortly after. Was a radio phone hybrid , could call as a mobile at a hefty rate or use the side button push to talk at no extra cost ( which we were encouraged to use)

Used to pick up the taxi ( operator only) on the house radio tuned as far left as it could crank the needle

Autocom on bike helmet , used to pick up store security and crane operators and night club bouncers etc

I like to listen to them on my stereo

What about N.I prior to the Digital rollout? I do remember being told that the RUC in Northern Ireland operated an encrypted or scrambled network from the 1980s due to the security situation. I would love to know what they used.

The next best thing you can do is to listen to ShopWatch security which is around the 450Mhz band in analog or digital DMR. Sometimes the police will carry a shopwatch radio or security will have a police radio in the CCTV room.

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So if I bought an up to date police scanner it wouldn’t pick anything up

Calling 128aes "massive encryption" was an exaggeration 4 years ago. Since tetra2 mapping and decoding was possible with SDR years ago, tetra 3 recordings were decoded on 1080 GPU as well soon later.
Now with RTX and the right software, individual groups are open within minutes.
And it's so nice of the police to transmit their position

Actually, when the police were on the 97-101Mhz, it wasn't always possible to listen clearly.
Why? Because that band fell in the middle of the 88-108Mhz FM broadcast band, which used wide-band FM.
The police used narrow(er) band FM.
Hence, you could sometimes hear more than one police channel at the same time, leading to a "squegging" sound, which made it difficult, if not impossible, to hear what was being said.
It was fine if there was only one channel being used.
I did prove this point by using a narrow-band Ham FM receiver to cover that range; I just changed the crystals. Then, you could select and clearly hear each channel, just like on a scanning receiver.
Amazing, when you think about it, why they left it so late to move off those channels.
The same applied to the local police channels - I think they were on the 147Mhz band, just above the 2m Amateur Radio band.
Around 45 years ago, there was the case of police being fatally shot; the getaway car was listening to their being persuing using a standard FM radio. I can't find anything about that case on google: please let me know if you do.

in the early 90s i bought a scanner. it picked up the police. i used it a few times and put it back in its box. swapped it for a Vauxhall chevet which i got a lot of use out of then swapped that for a b reg citron bx in gold. it had the suspension that could raise the body up high off the ground if you ever needed to drive down a farm track or whatever.

Years ago I used to have a communications receiver and could hear police fire mountain rescue ship to shore and taxis and utility broadcasts but now I have a short wave with airband

That's a bit of a defeatist attitude. A bright young man like you, I'm sure you could find a way.

Technically very difficult as it is encrypted legally no you are only allowed to listen to open transmission such as aircraft marine or radio hams

What happened to the old repeaters, are they still active.. I also can't find a legit listing of the 99 PR homeoffice channels online

If personal details, situations,etc and criminals in the act knowing that police officers are on their way was part of the reason U.K. emergency radios were encrypted, why don't other countries encrypt too? Is it down to certain laws in other countries? (Genuine question👍🏼)

Would it be possible to brute force the encryption keys
And can you get a tetra radio and use your own encryption keys so no one else can listen

Nice video

I can hear police in helicopters using AIR-AM.

Recruiting police. That is genius.

Can u listen with the New firmware /Tetra on the AOR DV1 ?

i can listen to the police ... just saying... and i aint a pig

you can listen and i have. they have an open frequency which is accessible. They also have the encrypted one which isn't. It is only illegal to broadcast lol

do a video on P25 and also secure coms useing a KVL. maybe explain MODAT. or OTAR. would ve a very happy camp if u did a P25 video maybe throwing in some info on DES XL. for a nice topping 😊. ❤

i can listen to our police tac one dispatch useing digital P25. with a NAC code of 2AF. 866 MHZ

The amount of idiots to this day who try to comvince you that they can listen into airwave communications, but have never provided evidence how they did it is so laughable.

Very interesting video Thanks, back in the 90's I had a CB radio with the 10 foot or so ariel on my roof and listened to the emergency services etc, I thought it would be nice to try and listen to these again.. but as you said this can't happen now. On the plus side you may have saved me some money as I was thinking of getting a scanner from eBay. 🎙📻

When the Iraqis invaded Kuwait in the 90s, my dad found out about this by listening to the police radio.

The only way you can listen to the police in the uk is to join the police .. ha ha quality .. i did read that the royal signals have and did crack police tetra years ago .. but then i would expect them to..

Very informative 👏 🎉

Used to have a basestation in the 90s and could receive from Liverpool to Blackpool, plus mobile phone conversation aswell!!