Scanners like these can be used to listen to radio channels between emergency crews, including police, responding to things like car crashes, fires and medical emergencies.
For the past several years, Calgary has been the only major Canadian city where police allowed news outlets to keep an ear on officer activity on the street by letting them listen in on some of their radio chatter. But that won’t be the case much longer.Scanners like these can be used to listen to radio channels for emergency crews, including police, responding to crime, crashes, fire and medical emergencies.
The Calgary Police Service was the last police department in a major Canadian municipality that gave news media access to some of its radio channels. While he understands police concerns with privacy, Jolly said cutting off radio access in other cities has limited journalists' ability to examine how police operate, and from holding them accountable when necessary."And this is kind of the last vestige of a system that has completely been overhauled, that has prevented media from adequately doing its job.
Now the Ottawa bureau chief with the Toronto Sun, Passifiume said he thinks the public should be concerned. "Despite what people may think of our profession, all we want to do is provide information. We want to give the best information as quickly as possible, as accurately as possible," he said. Tom Engel is an Edmonton-based criminal defence and civil rights lawyer. He says the 'public has an interest in knowing about how their police service operates.'
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