police app

I am looking for a free police app> one in which I can see where the smokies/county mounties are. not necessariy wanting an alarm or anything to sound(that would help). just want to be in the know. Anyone got any great links?

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Wildman

Cody21 wrote:
There ARE "police scanner" apps ... The one I installed (free) is called "Scanner Radio" and will in fact listen in on local police radios.

https://market.android.com/search?q=police+scanner&c=apps&start=0&num=24

Boy I am amazed how many apps for this, I thought it wasnt even legal to have something like this. Thought the polices signal is a private transmission...

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Jax_Omen

Are you looking for a speed trap app (there's several, I can't recommend one due to not using one myself, though) or an app to literally track police officers (there isn't one)?

Cody21

There ARE "police scanner" apps ... The one I installed (free) is called "Scanner Radio" and will in fact listen in on local police radios.

Wildman

Cody21 wrote:
There ARE "police scanner" apps ... The one I installed (free) is called "Scanner Radio" and will in fact listen in on local police radios.

https://market.android.com/search?q=police+scanner&c=apps&start=0&num=24

Boy I am amazed how many apps for this, I thought it wasnt even legal to have something like this. Thought the polices signal is a private transmission...

Cody21

Yea, I was also surprised.

mdram4x4

scanners?

you can by normal scanners at radio shack. nothing illegal

now if your using a gps type location there may be issues

yellowcanary73

I use it during bad weather you can stay up to date on what's happening a lot better then tv or radio reports.
Also when I was in hospital was listening when some nut case did an assault on our police station with automatic weapon right next to collage and 2 blocks from house.

Wildman

yellowcanary73 wrote:
I use it during bad weather you can stay up to date on what's happening a lot better then tv or radio reports.
Also when I was in hospital was listening when some nut case did an assault on our police station with automatic weapon right next to collage and 2 blocks from house.

I understand there is valid reasons that information like this may be helpful...

Cody21 wrote:
PS - congrats on going GOLD there Wildman ...

Thank You...

curtterp

Police scanners are NOT illegal, but having a police scanner in your car might be illegal, it all depends on the state/local laws.

There usually isn't any private information broadcast across the police radio's anymore. The mobile computer system is what the police use to check people for wants/warrants/issues anymore.

Scanner radio is not everywhere either. How it works, people(volunteers) with base(home) scanners route the auto from a channel to through their internet connection to a website. The website then takes the information, and streams the audio to anyone with the web browser that wants to listen to a certain frequency. They do the same thing for air traffic controller websites. Scanner radio just picks up the streams that you want to listen to. Simple as that.