10 Codes
Ten-codes you will hear on the Scanners
This a list of general 10 codes, 10 codes vary greatly by departments.
You should do a search for local ten-code tables for a specific scanner.
10-1 Receiving Poorly
10-2 Receiving Well
10-3 Stop Transmitting
10-4 Acknowledgement Rec'd.
10-5 Relay To
10-6 Busy
10-7 Out Of Service
10-8 In Service
10-9 Repeat-Conditions Bad
10-10 Out Of Service- Subject to call
10-11 Dispatching Too fast
10-12 Passenger
10-13 Weather/Road Cond.
10-14 Convoy Or Escort
10-15 Prisoner In Custody
10-16 Pick Up Prisoner At
10-17 Conduct Investigation
10-18 Expedite Assignment
10-19 Return To Station
10-20 Your Location?
10-21 Call Station (phone)
10-22 Disregard
10-23 Standby
10-24 Trouble-Send Help
10-25 In Contact With
10-26 Message Received
10-27 Complete Record OK
10-28 Check Registration
10-29 Stolen And/Or Wanted
10-30 Against Rules/Reg.
10-31 In Pursuit
10-32 Is D.O. Opr. Available
10-33 Emergency Traffic
10-34 Jail Break/Trbl. Station 10-35 Confidential Info.
10-35 Driver
10-36 Correct Time
10-37 Operator On Duty
10-38 Block Road (s) At
10-39 Message Delivered
10-40 Out For Meal
10-41 In Possession Of
10-42 Out Of Service-Home
10-43 Any Traffic For
10-44 Pick Up Papers At
10-45 Call____By Phone
10-46 Urgent
10-47 Blood Run
10-48 End/Did You Receive
10-49 Serving Warr. Capais
10-50 Stop Veh. (tag 10-20)
10-51 En route
10-52 Est. Time Of Arrival
10-53 Coming By Office
10-54 Negative
10-55 Car Calling To Car
10-56 Meet......At.....
10-57 At Pistol Range
10-58 At Road patrol Office
10-59 Send Teletype/Comp. mag.
10-60 Assist To Motorist
10-61 Need R.P. SGI On Scene
10-62 Need R.P. LT. On Scene
10-63 Need Bomb Squad (scene)
10-64 Need Crime Lab (scene)
10-65 Can You Copy
10-66 Cancel
10-67 Serving Civil Process
10-68 Legal Advice/Advisor 10-69 Send Narc. Agent
10-70 Send Wrecker
10-71 Send Ambulance
10-72 Send Helicopter
10-73 Open Gate S.O.
10-74 Re-Call
10-75 Are you OK?
10-85 Vacation Watch
10-86 Medical Hazard
10-88 Phone #
10-89 On Pager
10-90 Scramble (code ABCD)
10-91 Tactical Freq.
10-92 Info. Freq.
10-93 Detective Needed
10-94 Send Back-Up Car
10-95 Computer Check
10-96 Radio-Telephone Patch
10-97 Arrived At Scene
10-98 Completed Assignment
10-99 NCIC / FCIC Hit
It doesn't really mean anything, just read this paragraph from Wikipedia. "Ten-codes were developed in the 1940s at a time when police radio channels were limited, to reduce use of speech on the radio. Credit to the originator goes to Charles "Charlie" Hopper. He was the Communications Director at the Illinois State Police, District 10, located in Pesotum, Illinois. Hopper was involved in radio for many years and saw a need to abbreviate radio transmissions on State Police bands.[2] Experienced radio operators know that the first syllable of a transmission is frequently not going to be understood, but is a necessary part of "tuning in"; hence preceding every code with "ten" allows a better chance of understanding the critical portion. Also the radios of the day were based on vacuum tubes, with a small motor-generator (called a dynamotor) used to generate the high voltage (300-600 volts, depending on the type of radio) needed to operate the transmitter, and the dynamotor took 1/10 to 1/4 of a second to "spin up". The officers were trained to push the microphone button, and wait a moment, then talk, but sometimes they would forget and preceeding every code with "ten-" gave the radio transmitter time to come up to full power. Ten-codes were later adapted for use by CB radio enthusiasts before its pop culture explosion in the late 1970s. The tremendous popularity of the 1975 Convoy song by C.W. McCall depicting droll conversation among CB-communicating truckers put several phrases, such as 10-4 for "understood" and what's your twenty? (10-20) for "where are you?" into common and enduring use in American English. The song was followed by a 1978 movie Convoy which further entrenched the use of ten-codes in casual conversation." -Wikipedia
it means sure or alright
The police code, 10-16, is for a domestic disturbance.
gambling
Stay out of area.
The letter D
I hear and understand you.
District Attorney
In what. Police, Fireman. What do you want in this answer in what area.
It is the police code for Armed Robbery
Police code orange is the code for a Psychiatric issue.Added: The above MAY be the case in one or more jurisdictions. However police radio codes are NOT uniform, or mean the same thing, nationwide and the same code may have an entirely different meaning in another department.
In what. Police, Fireman. What do you want in this answer in what area.
it means be quiet
It means crazy