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San Diego Police officers confer with FEMA Administrator David Paulison during the October 2007 California wildfires.. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 509 law enforcement agencies exist in the U.S. state of California, employing 79,431 sworn police officers—about 217 for each 100,000 residents.
The APCO phonetic alphabet, a.k.a. LAPD radio alphabet, is the term for an old competing spelling alphabet to the ICAO radiotelephony alphabet, defined by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International [1] from 1941 to 1974, that is used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other local and state law enforcement agencies across the state of California and ...
Police code. A police code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States. Examples of police codes include "10 codes" (such as 10-4 for "okay" or "acknowledged"—sometimes written X4 or X-4), signals, incident codes, response codes, or ...
The California Highway Patrol ( CHP) is the principal state police agency for the U.S. state of California. The CHP has primary patrol jurisdiction over all California highways and roads and streets outside city limits, and can exercise law enforcement powers anywhere within the state. The California Highway Patrol can assist local and county ...
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of California, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations
The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state, respectively. [ 1] As of July 2023, California has 38 active area codes. Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Turlock; the northern San Joaquin Valley and the central Sierra ...
Section 23123.5 of the California Vehicle Code states that a person cannot operate a motor vehicle while holding a handheld telephone or electronic device unless it is designed to allow voice ...
The Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States. [ 5] With 8,832 officers [ 5] and 3,000 civilian staff, [ 2] it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City ...