This article brings up a very interesting point about law enforcement in Michigan. Each agency in our state, especially in the past, loved to have their own set of radio codes, independent of each other. For instance, Washtenaw County and the city of Ann Arbor have always had completely different codes, while some of the more rural departments have a slightly modified version based on the county standard. Moreover, you will find that this has been the case throughout the state of Michigan over the past few decades.
Plain English has been the standard among many departments for over 25 years now in Michigan, especially among the State Police. At one time, the MSP had over 100 10-codes, and several dozen Signal codes they liked to use. The idea was not to exclude the public, but use them for radio brevity and not tie up the airwaves for long periods of time. However, when communicating with other departments, this became confusing and in some cases posed a threat to officer safety, so the MSP began fazing them out in the early 1970s.
Interestingly, the neighboring states of Indiana and Ohio have pretty much uniform radio codes that are used throughout the state among all the agencies. However, due to politics, such ideas never caught on in our state.
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Ron
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