Are you kidding me
Are you kidding me, an actual radio? Dude, your getting a scanner, you want somthing else- its either a ham radio or a comerical two way radio. Either way you plan on going to be noticed on some level, unless you want to dish out 5,000 for a motorola nextel look like radio and thats only one band. You, want somthing special modified it then. The object here is not make a scence and get in the way, its better if you monitor from home with the right system setup. Or if you want to see from up close stay the hell out of the way of the public safety workers, yes it is possible. It's called standing on the opposite side of the street and listening with an earpiece. Trust me, certain situations brings with it alot of undo stress and tension that does not need to be their, you should know this as you state that you are an officer. Plus, when you have lots of people in a small environment your going to need a good earpiece other wise you might as well forget about hearing the audio. Plus, its hard to deicated mutiple channels on a incident to one radio. The best apporach is to have mutiple radios from a fixed location to listen to all the activity. Oh, well you learn as the hobby breaks you in.