Just as an interesting anecdote about laws regarding listening to police radio. In New Zealand, it's not illegal to listen to police radio (although a lot of it

Just as an interesting anecdote about laws regarding listening to police radio. In New Zealand, it's not illegal to listen to police radio (although a lot of it is not digital and encrypted), however, it is illegal to act on information gained from listening to it. I don't know exactly how this works in regards to journalists using police scanners, but I've never heard of anyone getting prosecuted for that sort of thing.