You can access these bands with more than one kind of hardware — there are police-specific scanners that pretty much only work in the UHF band, and these will probably be a bit cheaper.

Longmont police are now dispatching through an encrypted radio channel, which means the public cannot listen to police communication via scanners and scanner cellphone apps.

The Longmont Police Department’s pilot scanner encryption program officially ended Thursday, but the department said it will keep its radio traffic encrypted while it analyzes data from the test ...

EVERETT — Police radio communications across Snohomish County will be encrypted starting May 6, cutting off public access to real-time scanner traffic, officials announced Tuesday at a press ...

Longmont Police Department’s pilot scanner encryption program will end by March 21, at which time the department will evaluate whether it improved officer safety, public privacy and detectives ...