Code 5

[ion_op]

I'm hearing "Code 5" now on my scanner. Has a new code been implemented for law enforcement?

 

[jaymatt1978]

WHAT DEPARTMENT? what frequency a little context would be very helpful?

 

[ion_op]

Somerset County PD Region 3, EMS.

 

[racescan_fan]

I know Woodbridge, Clark, Linden, and I think Rahway use Code 5 for acknowledged "10-4"

 

[sking128]

Don't know about there, but here in El Paso County CO, Code 5 means there is an active warrant for arrest. then they will use Suffix M for Misdemeanors, and F for Felony.

 

[ion_op]

I know Woodbridge, Clark, Linden, and I think Rahway use Code 5 for acknowledged "10-4"

That's how I'm hearing it as well. Normally, they would say "received" but recently "code 5" has replaced "received."

 

[racescan_fan]

If it's coming at the end of a message then that's probably what it means.

 

[npd155]

Code 5 in Union County has always been the code for "received"

 

[IFRIED91]

Amsterdam PD in Montgomery county NY uses code instead of 10

 

[wtp]

some south begen towns used "fourteen" for 10-4 years ago.
the idea is that they know what it means.
aural brevity !

 

[Steve162]

some south begen towns used "fourteen" for 10-4 years ago.
the idea is that they know what it means.
aural brevity !

Many years ago most of the southern Bergen County police departments with the exception of North Arlington operated on 155.73. Unfortunately so did the now-defunct Hudson County Police Department which must have been running 5 kw because they'd blow everyone else out of the water.

Anyway the Hudson County code for "message acknowledged" was 10-14; of course it had to be different from "10-4" as was used in most places.
Often this was shortened to, "fourteen." And I think some of the south Bergen towns would use it to bust the HC cops' chops.

The HC cars were numbered with a leading zero ("052"), I guess to avoid confusion. I remember "01" which I guess was their Chief using "10-14" the way the military would use, "over."

"Oh-one to headquarters, ten-fourteen."
"Come in"
"Are there any messages for me, ten-fourteen."
"Negative."
"Thank you, I'll be off the air, ten-fourteen."

Welcome to the ongoing disaster that is radio comms in NJ!

 

[6079smithw]

In my corner of Nevada, Code 5 indicates surveillance as in "I'm Code 5 on a green Toyota parked in front of
123 4th Street." Dispatch replies "10-4".

 

[racescan_fan]

Don't forget NYC's favorite "K'.

 

[wtp]

i will just say i use that in my everyday life after listening in up there for about20 years.
and it was more of an 'end of my message' as the FD repeaters would 'hang' for a moment.
"K"

 

[ff026]

Don't forget NYC's favorite "K'.

In the last 20 years the NYPD never uses “K”.