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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 other ...
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.
Police – 022; Ambulance – 033; Fire – 011 . Police – 113 . Text phone – 0800 81 12; Non-emergency police – 0900 88 44 [a] or 0343 578 844; [66] Non-emergency police (text phone) – 0900 18 44; Suicide prevention – 113; Animal emergency – 144; Child abuse – 0900 123 12 30; [a] Anti-bullying hotline – 0800 90 50 .
United States[edit] 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.
Code 12: Request to clear frequency for request for information on potential individual arrest warrant; Code 20: Notify media (or media already on scene) Code 30: Burglar alarm (can be Code 30-Silent) Code 30-Adam: Burglar alarm, location is monitored with audio by security company; Code 30-Ringer: Ringing burglar alarm
The movie End of Watch, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena, follows two officers during their day to day duties in the south end of Los Angeles. An end of watch call is made for Deputy Luna in the episode 3, titled 10-8 Deputy Down, of Season 1 of the procedural drama, Deputy. An End of Watch call is played 40 minutes into Episode 10 ...
911, sometimes written 9-1-1, is an emergency telephone number for Argentina, Canada, Dominican Republic, Jordan, Mexico, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, the Philippines, Sint Maarten, the United States, [2] and Uruguay, as well as the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), one of eight N11 codes. Like other emergency numbers around the world, this ...
The GSM phones may regard some phone numbers with one or two digits as special service codes. It might be impossible to make an emergency call to numbers like 03 or 92 with a mobile phone. In those cases the emergency number has to be called by using a landline telephone or with an additional first/last digit (for example 922 or 992 instead of ...