Vancouver Police

[Jammin_Jay]

Are Vancouver Police encrypted? What type of system do they use?

 

[KMPara]

Short answer, they can't be listened too. They are on ProVoice along with most emergency services in the Lower Mainland. Check out www.scanbc.com for more info.
Quote from scanbc.com :
There are 9 detachments in the Lower Mainland district that operate out of the G.V.R.D., these include:


Agassiz
Boston Bar
Bowen Island
Chilliwack
Hope
Pemberton
Squamish
Sunshine Coast
Whistler

 

[BC_Scan]

E-Comm's radio system is Aegis Edacs all PD including RCMP are aegis non encrypt, side note
Vanc never abandoned their old vhf system , a bunch of rptrs & simplex still exist , but only special operatrions p25 & enc.

 

[boy_ryan22]

Short answer, they can't be listened too. They are on ProVoice along with most emergency services in the Lower Mainland. Check out www.scanbc.com for more info.
Quote from scanbc.com :
There are 9 detachments in the Lower Mainland district that operate out of the G.V.R.D., these include:


Agassiz
Boston Bar
Bowen Island
Chilliwack
Hope
Pemberton
Squamish
Sunshine Coast
Whistler

Hrmm That is just a list of RCMP detachments in the lower mainland. None of those detachments are on the "E-Comm" system... yet.

This map shows exactly which police departments that are provoice and that you can NOT hear.

 

[Jay911]

What's GVTAPS? Greater Vancouver T-something Airport Police Service?

 

[KMPara]

Hrmm That is just a list of RCMP detachments in the lower mainland. None of those detachments are on the "E-Comm" system... yet.

This map shows exactly which police departments that are provoice and that you can NOT hear.

I was trying to list those Lower Mainland RCMP that were not on the "E-comm" system. Sorry if that was'nt clear.

 

[Chilliwack40]

What's GVTAPS? Greater Vancouver T-something Airport Police Service?

Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Police Service

 

[boy_ryan22]

Throw these into your scanner. This is the only police you will be listening to near Vancouver.

Rcmp A 139.245
Rcmp B 139.410
Rcmp C 139.590
Rcmp D 139.320
Rcmp E 139.500
Rcmp F 139.560
Rcmp G 139.530
Rcmp H 139.290
Rcmp J 139.380
Rcmp K 139.440

 

[antennas]

Gvtaps??

What's GVTAPS? Greater Vancouver T-something Airport Police Service?

No just a bunch of wanna be cops. Ticket checkers at Vancouver transit system.

Now you know.

 

[Chilliwack40]

No just a bunch of wanna be cops. Ticket checkers at Vancouver transit system.

Now you know.

Actually, they are all fully sworn provincial constables under the BC Police Act, most of which came from other police agencies in the Lower Mainland and most have 20+ years service as police officers... Wanna be cops/ticket checkers, maybe in your eyes...but the facts indicate otherwise.

From the Translink Web Site:

Transit Police
Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Police Service have full powers of provincial police, including the ability to arrest people for outstanding warrants, enforce drug laws, and enforce the Criminal Code outside TransLink property.

 

[boy_ryan22]

No just a bunch of wanna be cops. Ticket checkers at Vancouver transit system.

Now you know.

Sounds like your on the wrong website. GVTAPS are Cops.

Now YOU Know!

 

[triplx]

vancouver police

Sounds like your on the wrong website. GVTAPS are Cops.

Now YOU Know!

Yes the GVTAPS are full legal police officers. The problem with them is the same as the CNCP rail police. There first priority is the protection of the COMPANIES interests not
protection of the public. They answer to TRANSLINK. It would have been better to
have assign local police to transit beats. Interesting that port police are not needed but
transit are.

 

[provoice]

E-Comm's radio system is Aegis Edacs all PD including RCMP are aegis non encrypt, side note
Vanc never abandoned their old vhf system , a bunch of rptrs & simplex still exist , but only special operatrions p25 & enc.

Actually they're not running AEGIS. They're running ProVoice.

 

[boy_ryan22]

Actually they're not running AEGIS. They're running ProVoice.

Stupid provoice. What ever happened to good ole analog radio?

 

[provoice]

Why is it stupid? The only "stupid" in the equation are the people who can't figure out how to buy a MA/COM radio on eBay and program it up to monitor the services of interest. (Not picking on you, boy_ryan22).

There are far too many posts on this board and on scanbc.com from people saying it is IMPOSSIBLE to monitor VPD, RCMP, EHS, etc. These people are just stupid. No brains, no personal motivation to go out and experiment and no common sense.

KMPara says:

Short answer, they can't be listened too.

Sorry, but that's an outright lie. Either he's ignorant to the facts or lying with intent.

Let's say you (anyone) wants to monitor a given radio system for which a scanner doesn't exist...the first logical thought that pops into my mind is, "What are the system users using?". Duh? RADIOS. Now the next order of business is, "Is voice traffic encrypted?" If the answer is no, then what the hell are people being impossiblists for?

eBay provoice-capable radio = $500-1000
programming cable = $90
rapid charger = $20 (eBay)
a couple of batteries = $50 (eBay)
software = free (google.com)

In the end, it really doesn't work out to more than the cost of a new digital scanner with some accessories like a rapid charger, extra batteries and software licence fees.

Improvise! Experiment! Personal initiative!

 

[boy_ryan22]

Well to sum it up. I know a couple people who are able to listen to Provoice the way you explained. As you may know ERT is already Encrypted. and Ecrypted Provoice is IMPOSSIBLE to listen to..... We tell people that listening to the police is impossible so that the police think its impossible. That way they dont "flip the switch" and turn everything encrypted. The few people who have radios enjoy it and dont want a $1500 brick because some police detachment freaked out.

 

[provoice]

A reasonable explanation, boy_ryan22. Being discrete is elite, but I hate it when people (either intentionally or ignorantly) spread the wrong information.

Cheers.