How can you inhibit the radio if it never affiliates? There are ways around affiliation but the radio police will scare you into thinking you can't.
If programmed correctly the radio will never affiliate and you will be able to scan the talkgroups.
I have the capabilities. This officers personal MTS2K was set up for PTT affiliate and he "claims" that he never transmitted, yet I still had an illegal affiliation for the ID he had programmed in the server record and I stuned his radio. The big mistake he made was going to the Chief complaining and the Chief had the radio brought to me by a detective for an evaluation. It had other trunking systems and talk-groups in it that he had no authority to have.
So in the end I was told he missed out on a days pay and still has an expensive doorstop.
For those who think I'm self appointed, I'm far from it. I get paid to professionally administer a public safety radio system and speak from many years of experience.