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In the UK, police radio has been encrypted for the last twenty or so years and in fact it’s illegal to even try to listen in on anything without permission.
by xanderlewis 3y ago
In the UK, police radio has been encrypted for the last twenty or so years and in fact it’s illegal to even try to listen in on anything without permission.
- wkat4242 3y agoYes but the UK has been one of only 2 countries in the world with that peculiar legal stipulation (not being allowed to listen to unencrypted signals) But yeah in Holland the police radios have been encrypted for 20 years as well.. Their pagers are not and there's many sites publishing this info. I believe in the UK publishing info that was received is also not allowed. On the one hand I understand, even before it was encrypted they'd often have to call the officers on a cell phone to protect personal information. However on the other hand it makes the police service even more opaque again. The public radios made for great accountability.
- Scoundreller 3y agoI think in UK, you're allowed to listen, but not doing anything with that info. Which has been taken to extend to redistribution or recording, not just showing up at a crime scene.
- wkat4242 3y agoI found this: https://www.pprune.org/atc-issues/206063-listening-uk-atc-communications-law.html https://www.pprune.org/atc-issues/206063-listening-uk-atc-co... In regards to listening to ATC and police (where unencrypted of course). So apparently it's not allowed to listen at all. It's just very hard to catch and someone spreading heard info is of course much easier to identify so I guess enforcement is more focused at the latter.