Regarding the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) dispatch encryption:

There’s nothing we can do about the radio encryption that Hennepin County law enforcement has (and all their client cities) and Minneapolis PD has.  But all is not lost:

WE BELIEVE IN PUBLIC SAFETY

When we say public safety, we mean it: the safety of the public.  That’s you, stream listener.  Your safety, citizens of the state, is our number one priority.  The scanner streams we provide are for you to monitor for your own safety so that you can make informed decisions about many things, including down to the minute choices about how to react to events happening around you.  A major part of safety is the concept of Situational Awareness and our scanner feeds provide a big part of that situational awareness.

WHAT IS SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

Situational Awareness is knowing what’s going on around you at all times: it is the effort you put in to keep your head on a swivel to keep yourself out of trouble.  99% of the time if you can see trouble coming, you can take steps to avoid it.  Scanner feeds help give you a picture of the everyday activities of public officials and services, like law enforcement, that could significantly impact the safety of you, your family, and your loved ones.  We know you; you listen to the scanner so you know what’s happening around you to keep you and your loved ones safe.

BUT OFFICER SAFETY, HOW ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY

The police have a huge number of tools at their disposal to maintain their Situational Awareness and their safety: radios, dispatchers, video cameras, GPS tracking, laptops in their squad cars, fast-response teamwork, body armor, less-than-lethal equipment such as tazers, and firearms.  Us, the general public, are not afforded these things so we must maintain our Situational Awareness as much as possible because our legal responses to things like violent crime are severely limited.

SO WHAT NEXT

Hennepin County (in general) has chosen to encrypt their police and sheriff communications.  We will adapt.  The police do not operate alone.  We will be adding new streams that roll up EMS, Fire, Bus Drivers, Sanitation, work crews, and a lot more.  Our scanner system is state-of-the-art and we can listen to every ARMER tower and every talkgroup in the metro at the same time.  If it’s in Hennepin County, and it’s unencrypted, and it is permitted by Broadcastify, we’re going to stream it.  It will take some time to rework our systems and collect the right talkgroups into the right feeds, but again, WE ARE COMMITTED TO YOUR PUBLIC SAFETY.  Please be patient as we work through the challenges.  You may not be able to listen to the police, but we’ll make it possible for you to listen to everyone who works with the police.  The goal is for you to still know what’s going on around you, to keep your Situational Awareness up.  If you have comments or suggestions, please “Report a Problem” on any of our streams and tell us.

SILENCE IS NOT SAFE,

Signals.tel team

WHO ARE WE

We started building Minnesota’s largest scanner system following the riots of 2020.  Our families were not safe, and we felt it.  We won’t be caught off guard again.

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11558   SPPD CH 1 W - SP PD Ch 1 West (Ramsey County St Paul)

11560   SPPD CH 2 C - SP PD Ch 2 Central (Ramsey County St Paul)

11562   SPPD CH 3 E - SP PD Ch 3 East (Ramsey County St Paul)