Police Radio Codes

Police use many abbreviations and codes on the radio and for day to day work.

Because of the large number of codes, they have been broken up into multiple pages. To see this list as one big page, see Police Radio Codes Combined.

• Police Job Type Codes - Used to indicate the type of incident when the job is first received
• Police Status Codes - Used to indicate unit status messages.
• Police Result Codes - Used to indicate the result of a job.
• Police Event Closing Codes - Assigned when the job is attended or resulted by an officer, better defining the type of job.

Police also have a number of abbreviations.