Dateline NBC and Ft Myers PD sting

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This past Saturday night, I heard Fort Myers PD doing some undercover operations, unencrypted, on talkgroup 04782. I figured it was another anti-narcotics operation or an operation busting johns with female cops posing as prostitutes. But, no! It was a sting operation catching internet predators who were attempting to meet up with (what they thought were) underage teens. Instead, they wound up meeting face-to-face with the reporter Chris Hansen of Dateline NBC. According to the Fort Myers News-Press, article <http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060424/NEWS0110/60424006/1075> the episode will air between May 10th and 17th on your local NBC affiliate.

It was cool listening in on the detectives discussing their plans and the operation as it went down. I'm surprised, however, how Lee County police agencies never encrypt their voice operations in these undercover operations.
 

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Good Work - Anyone know if NBC had PERMISSION from the local DA to be there - the news stories do not cover that aspect.
 
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Well, I hope it doesn't go like the last one , where an Orlando area station had a reporter do an undercover sting for a story and got several individuals including a prosecutor online, all of whom got arrested, and then all charges had to be dropped, because she left the area, and would not cooperate.
 

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Correction: Fort Myers PD does its undercover ops on talkgroup 04784, not 04782. At times, Lee County Sheriff's Office can be heard doing undercover ops on the LE Countywide1 talkgroup! Again, unencrypted!
 

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On the Orlando operation the civilian news people wanted to get paid and as a result balked at testifying.

Please guys don't make a big deal out of pointing out that communications are not encrypted or maybe think two or three times about posting such information. You know what the results can be. I have one word Jacksonville. (ie:full time encryption on all PD talkgroups. Is that what you want?)
 
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