[Heihachi_73]

I've always wondered what they actually meant in most of the code talk. Say, you grab a cop car, that usually warrants about 3 or 4 different things. e.g. the female announcer usually says something like 10-71, 10-29, 10-80, one after another.

I tried the search function but gave up with too many results. Google didn't do much better. Maybe the information is classified police talk not available to the public.

I gather a 10-73 is a hit and run as it always happens after running over someone. In Need For Speed: Most Wanted it's also there when you hit a car.

[solo]

Ask and you will recieve

CODE

10-1   Responding 10-2   Cancel Response 10-3   Arrived on Scene 10-4   Acknowledgement 10-5   Repeat 10-6   Stand By 10-7   Verify Address or info. 10-8   Call 10-9   Meet 10-10  Your Location?   10-11  Radio Test (R1-R9) 10-12  Preliminary Report 10-13  Need Help     Code 1 - Urgent     Code 2 - Not Urgent 10-14  Disregard Previous info 10-15  False Call/No Incident   10-16  Freq. Request (Fire Only)   10-17  Fire Box # Request       10-18  Activity Update               10-19  Monitor Freq. for activity           10-20  Incident Under Control           10-21  Brush/Woods Fire                   10-22  Motor Vehicle Fire         10-23  HazMat Incident                   10-24  Gas Leak                             10-25  Electrical Fire                       Code 1 - Manhole                   Code 2 - Vault                   Code 3 - Substation           10-26  Ship Fire                         10-27  Subway/RR Incident                 10-30  Fire/Smoke Showing                       Code 1 - Doubtful Will Hold       Code 2 - Probably Will Hold         Code 3 - Under Control           10-31  Explosion/Bomb Incident           Code 1 - Explosion                 Code 2 - Bomb Incident         10-32  High Rise Incident                   10-33  Structural Collapse                 10-34  Construction Accident         10-35  Working Fire                   10-36  Search For Person                     Code 1 - Missing                         Code 2 - Lost                 10-37  Water Incident                       10-38  Drowning Search                             Code 1 - Confirmed Victim 10-39  Aircraft Incident     Code 1 - Serious     Code 2 - Not Serious           10-40  Motor Vehicle Accident             Code 1 - Serious Injury             Code 2 - No Serious Injury     10-41  Emergency Vehicle MVA           10-42  School Bus Accident             10-43  MedFlight Requested         10-44  Tractor Trailer Accident 10-45  Fatality/Injuries                   Code 1 - Fatality                           Code 2 - Serious Injury                 Code 3 - Minor Injury             10-46  Weather Alert                         10-47  Avoid Area/congestion                     Code 1 - Flooding                           Code 2 - Wind Damage     Code 3 - Accident 10-49  Report/Road Weather 10-50  Police Operation     Code 1 - Pursuit/Auto     Code 2 - Manhunt/Search on foot     Code 3 - Raid     Code 4 - Other (specify) 10-51  Suicide 10-52  Demonstration     Code 1 - Riot     Code 2 - Civil Disturbance     Code 3 - Volatile Situation     Code 4 - Peaceful 10-53  Swat Team Response 10-54  Homicide     Code 1 - Firearm     Code 2 - Knife     Code 3 - Other (specify) 10-55  Officer Shot/Stabbed 10-56  Officer in Trouble 10-57  Shots Fired 10-58  A&B/Dangerous Weapon     Code 1 - Firearm     Code 2 - Knife     Code 3 - Other (specify) 10-59  Armed Subject     Code 1 - Barricaded     Code 2 - With Hostage     Code 3 - Other (specify) 10-60  Bank Robbery 10-61  Armored Car Robbery 10-62  Armed Robbery     Code 1 - Home Invasion     Code 2 - Business     Code 3 - Other (specify) 10-63  Kidnapping 10-64  Burglary 10-65  Body Found 10-66  Rape 10-67  Selective Enforcement 10-68  Prison/Jail Incident     Code 1 - Riot/Disturbance     Code 2 - Escape 10-69  Request for K9 Unit 10-70  VIP Arrival/Escort     Code 1 - Secret Svc Protection     Code 2 - State/Local Protection 10-71  Sensitive Incident     Code 1 - No Radio, Landline Only     Code 2 - Use Radio Discretely 10-90  Essential Radio Traffic Only 10-91  Request Emergency Notification 10-95  Unauthorized Radio User 10-97  Hold Radio Traffic 10-98  Resume Normal Operations 10-99  Restrict talk to current incident 10-44  Tractor Trailer Accident 10-100 Major Emergency First unit on scene will update MRS base.  All others on scene will operate on direct.  Units not involved with incident will hold their traffic until 10-98 or 10-99 is given.

[brucewayne909]

Cops have to memorize all this stuff?

Why can't they just say it?

[Heihachi_73]

Great stuff there Solo!

I guess it's easier to say 10-4 than Affirmative (well, OK is the same!). A few are missing from the list but they generally happen by themselves in GTA so you can tell what they might be.

[solo]

I noticed there were a few missing, but that could be in case they need to add new ones. or maybe not.

[All-Blacks]

QUOTE (brucewayne909 @ Dec 27 2006, 18:39)

Cops have to memorize all this stuff? Why can't they just say it?

Lol thats what I thought. English was made for a reason, whats the point of making a new complicated, pointless way of communication? Maybe this is why the police barely turns up quick enough, takes 'em time to figure it out in their book 'Police for Dummies' .

[saintmarksman]

the point of making a new, complicated way of communication is so that criminals can't listen with a police scanner to see if anyone's called the cops and what the cops are being called for. if you were a police officer would you want people to listen in and know exactly what you're doing and where you are?

[rav0]

Police have no worry about people listening to their communications (except maybe annoying gossip queens who like to stand nearby looking busy and eavesdrop).

The codes are because radio is unreliable (bad reception, range, interference, sound noise near the operator, etc), and an dropped word from a sentence can end up wrecking a message, possible undectedly. The codes are more error-resilient.

Something strange I've noticed about the codes posted here is that thay use the numbers 20, 30, 40, etc. Unless these are read differently, "twenty-five" transmitted on the radio, but with the "-five" dropped (eg because of interference) ends up being the same as just "twenty", and the wrong message is transferred. That's why nine is niner and true bearings are always three digit (eight degrees east of north is zero-zero-eight).

This post has been edited by rav0 on Thursday, Feb 22 2007, 07:37

[Mr.Brownstone]

I used to be in Ary cadets and all, and they have this way of pronoucing the numbers a bit differently.

like 5 would be fife, 9 = niner, and so on. Its just to make things clearer like the previous poster said. It reall helps out alot. and sometimes poeple might misinterpret some words.

[PRob]

QUOTE (Mr.Brownstone @ Feb 22 2007, 02:52)

I used to be in Ary cadets and all, and they have this way of pronoucing the numbers a bit differently. like 5 would be fife, 9 = niner, and so on. Its just to make things clearer like the previous poster said. It reall helps out alot. and sometimes poeple might misinterpret some words.

That's also the reason for the phonetic alphabet ("Alpha", "Beta", "Charlie", "Delta", "Echo", "Foxtrot" etc).
Also, you should really say "Affirm" rather than "Affirmative", as it can also be confused with "Negative" on a bad signal.

Oh, and never, and I mean NEVER, say "Over and Out."

"Over" means you are waiting for a response.
"Out" means you don't want/need a response and the exchange is over.

Thus "Over and Out" is a contradiction of itself.

It amazing what you learn from being in the Red Cross, isn't it?

[jimmy-laws]

can i have recent updates on that

[dingleman]

Police Codes used in GTA III:

10-09 Repeat
10-11 Dispatching Too Rapidly
10-29 Stolen Or Wanted Check
10-48 Unattended Death
10-50 Cruiser In Accident
10-55 Vehicle Accident
10-65 Boating Accident
10-73 Trouble At Station
10-74 Officer Needs Assistance
10-80 Business/Residence Alarm
10-81 Back In Town
10-92 Need Radio Technician

I think the developers just threw in some random numbers in the audio files, and didn't really consider what they meant.