It is common while discussing a mentally unstable acting person over the airwaves to use the code "5150".
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It is the police code for Armed Robbery
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Signals are sent from a police officer's radio to a "Repeater" located on a building somewhere. That repeater will have a signal code. for example... 159.900 is a signal frequency code. When your scanner is set on that code, or any other code, it will receive the transmissions from that code where ever you are that the signal will reach.
the best place to go is radio shack and buy a code book or most radio shacks will give a readout of area codes for free. call them and find out.
These codes are NOT universal across the country and could mean different things in different agencies.
A 1084 code on a police scanner typically refers to a situation involving a person who is mentally unstable or emotionally disturbed. This code is often used by law enforcement to alert officers to approach the situation with caution and to be prepared to handle potential risks associated with interacting with individuals experiencing mental health crises. It is important for officers to exercise empathy, de-escalation techniques, and potentially involve mental health professionals to ensure a safe and appropriate resolution to the situation.
There are handheld bar code scanners, so a handheld bar code scanner is a bar code scanner, but a bar code scanner is not necessarily a handheld scanner. There are bar code scanners in store checkout stands that are fixed, and there may or may not be an associated handheld scanner there for the clerk to use to scan, say, a large bag of dog food that the customer doesn't want to hoist up onto the counter.
5150: Police Code for a Dangerous mentally unstable person. Also the name of Eddie Van Halen's home recording studio, Van Halen's 7th album (and first with Hagar on vocals), a song title on that album, and the highest party mode achievable during the Van Halen Sammy Hagar era.
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5150: Police Code for a Dangerous mentally unstable person. Also the name of Eddie Van Halen's home recording studio, Van Halen's 7th album (and first with Hagar on vocals), a song title on that album, and the highest party mode achievable during the Van Halen Sammy Hagar era.
5150: Police Code for a Dangerous mentally unstable person. Also the name of Eddie Van Halen's home recording studio, Van Halen's 7th album (and first with Hagar on vocals), a song title on that album, and the highest party mode achievable during the Van Halen Sammy Hagar era.
i have a 99 ford ranger xlt. my code scanner connector is not working,is there a fuse for it