highlandham wrote:
In Britain the police is now on a digital nation wide trunking system
,originally called Tetra ; I believe it is a Motorola system .
The Ambulance- and other public services are gradually also adopting the
system ,which eventually will be pan-european .

In the Netherlands it has been active for several years already.
There is no more police radio snooping using FM scanners anymore.

(of course this means the public cannot serve as an extra eye and ear
to the police anymore, either)