This is the more reason for encrypted digital communications for police and law enforcement. This CTV video, will give more of an incentive perhaps. And the incident itself, will probably make the process go even faster to get full digital encryption on TPS, then what was previously planned. That can't be transmitted on , like in the analog smart zone system. Allthough this was probably a not normal incident the police deal with everyday, it is one that may raise eyebrows and the police wanted it aired on CTV. I wonder for all the people watching the CTV clip who have never used a scanner before, might be inclined to do so, or look it up on the internet, and perhaps buy one, for curiosity and also to hear police communications very easily.
For them to find the radio's after a week, and search for them. It brings the question, once a radio is stolen, can it be locked out immediately once an officer reports the loss of it in the car, so it can't transmit on the system, if this what the police was worried about.