Getting the Information Out Overview of Law Enforcement Communications Systems and

A review of the history of communications in law enforcement would probably show that law enforcement has always attempted to communicate with other law enforcement agencies, the media, and the community. is has been done on a face-to-face basis, in one-on-one communications, via the pony express, the stage coach, wanted posters, the telegraph, the telephone, car radios, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) teletype system, and in today’s world, the computer. Oh, yes, let’s not forget the era when o¥- cers had call boxes and rapping and tapping their police batons on the cement to communicate with each other.