Police radio likely used to broadcast hoax, official says

[mikepdx]

Statesman Journal, Salem
May 11, 2007

Thursday morning's police-band broadcast is the one all officers dread: "Shots fired. Officer down!"
It also was a hoax.

At 10:58 a.m., as officers used their radios to coordinate the search, someone shouted, "Shots fired. Officer down!" on a police radio channel.

Story at the Statesman Journal site :
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070511/NEWS/705110320

 

[Baker845]

I saw this on northwest cable news tonight and they played the tape of the person. Thats way most Police depts want to move to encrypted systems. Looks like it time for salem PD to move to 800 mhz.

 

[KE7JFF]

Well...they partially are...but yeah...they need to move it all over to the Salem A Tower...

 

[Baker845]

From KGW -

http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/showVideo.php?vidId=143259