No more Police Scanning :(

[Ska]

All ears tuned to Qld police scanners

THE days of the crime reporter hunched over a police scanner will be gone for good in Queensland if police succeed in a bid to keep digital communications secret.

Instead, the media could find itself restricted to a 24-hour police media unit, SMS messaging services and a broadcast dissemination service to newsrooms  

[NismoGirl]

At the moment it's only Brisbane metro that have gone digital. Gold coast and sunny coast are still on normal frequencies.

[Ska]

Read the article, soon it will be the whole state.....................

[predator]

yeah.. most states are implementing it.

Won't be long before its cracked hacked or otherwise decrypted though. *shrug*

[strutto]

Bah... What a waste of 90 dollas... Oh well was good listening for a bit... Although... It could be years before they actually do something...

[rb25]

yeah.. most states are implementing it.  

Won't be long before its cracked hacked or otherwise decrypted though. *shrug*

exactly.

[Ska]

Yeah the way the government works we'll be able to buy digital scanners that can get it before they are actually using them

[Yotis]

Oh dont b so sure of that.. government has been known to do things in a split second.. ie. knee jerk reactions.

[NismoGirl]

Bah...  What a waste of 90 dollas...  Oh well was good listening for a bit...  Although... It could be years before they actually do something...

It took them the whole 2 years and 9 months (plus the rest) that I was there to implement just the brisbane metro area.

But now that the network has been set up and proven to work, it probably won't take that long to get the rest of the state onto digital.

[knore]

Anything the police can do we can do better hehe

Someone will crack/hack or release something that listens to the digital etc

Its just a matter of time, but who cares anyway, if i wanted to hear of constable xxx pulling over a 14 year old for a bong in his bag a 2am then ide watch cops.

hehe

[yoparata]

Hahahahahaha............ you guys are funny:)

DIgital scanners have been available all over the world, probably arrived last to Australia:)

and can be Hacked and Cracked to any country scanning system with a tiny little mod chip:)

Oh, and they work very well

[predator]

as the man was saying.. i think aaron was the one who told me you could crack them fairly easly actually

the best part is cops will *think* nobody can listen in on anymore which is more dangerous than them knowing people can listen in...

[strutto]

Hahahahahaha............ you guys are funny:)

DIgital scanners have been available all over the world, probably arrived last to Australia:)

and can be Hacked and Cracked to any country scanning system with a tiny little mod chip:)

Oh, and they work very well

Are these similar to the ones you bought for Genesis and Charly that didn't work

[predator]

that is funny also

[drakan69]

i can understand why the cops don't want us listen in, however i think it should be another one of those laws, like why cops without cameria/radar carn't book you for speeding without photographic evidence.

personaly i think that if cops can hide there vehicles and just leave the radar gun/speed cameria sitting out near the road ( and as for the radar signs that they have to have, how many of them have you seen facing the correct way on the road??) Then the public should be alowed to have radar detectors and police scanners.

just my 2 cents worth.

[pimpspec]

i can understand why the cops don't want us listen in, however i think it should be another one of those laws, like why cops without cameria/radar carn't book you for speeding without photographic evidence.

Makes sense, well we were able to avoid an pretty serious accident scene once due to listening to the scanner. Meant less cars at the accident scene and one less car for police to divert .... some times listening into them can be a good thing ....

[NismoGirl]

http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/common/...55E3102,00.html

Just thought I'd post an article that was in the paper today regarding the police scanners. It will be interesting to see what happens.