Three quarters of police forces in England and Wales now have access to mobile fingerprint scanners issued by the Home Office, new data reveals. In total, 28 of 43 police forces have started using the ...

As thousands of people across the U.S. protest against police brutality, police-scanner apps have surged in popularity. One such app, 5-0 Radio Police Scanner, shot up the charts to become the most ...

U.S. smartphone users are downloading police scanner apps in record numbers amid protests taking place across the country in the wake of George Floyd's murder, according to mobile-app data analysis ...

A Facebook group with nearly 10,000 wants central Iowans to stay up-to-date on crime in the metro.The Des Moines Scanner Squad Facebook page gathers police scanner aficionados to discuss ongoing ...

It was police radio traffic on the scanner that drew freelance photojournalist Juan Ruiz to an Encanto home last year, where he captured video footage of an unarmed man being bitten by a police dog ...

On Thursday, police flipped the switch, encrypting more than 2,000 radios in the city. The switch happened around 1 p.m. and police officers could be heard directing their colleagues to switch over to ...

NEW YORK (FOX5NY) - Police in New York may soon have a new weapon to catch people who text and drive. It called the "textalyzer". Ben and Debbie Lieberman know the pain of losing a child. Their 19 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot is defending the city's decision to start the process of encrypting police radio transmissions, a move that will block the public from listening to those ...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- For those who’ve listened to the crackle of the scanner traffic over desktop or handheld radios over the years in Genesee County, the silence heard Thursday afternoon was ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — In East Lansing, crowds gathered on Tuesday night to remember the victims of a mass shooting on the campus of Michigan State University. Thanks to police scanner recordings, we ...