The freq they were on at the time was 156.150. Yes I was shocked at the time and angry because it was my town and I loved to monitor the goings on in my town. I remember Uniden just introduced the very first digital capible scanner back then the BC250D but it was like $350 for the radio and another $250 for the digital card. But I broke down and purchased one and I was back in bussiness. The sad part of the story comes about three months later when they switched over to full time encrypted mode. I could'nt believe I wasted all that money and all I was able to do with this new technology was listen to Pawtucket PD of which I had little interest in at the time.West Warwick still uses the same system today but the technology is now outdated. They operate the system hit or miss..some cars are encrypted and some cars and portables are not. Headquarters operates the same way, some times they are encrypted and other times they are in the clear.I never could figure that part out.