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The largest collection of live police, firefighter, aircraft, railroad, emergency, news, and ham radios

5-0 Radio Police Scanner

by Smartest Apps LLC
FREE in the App Store

5-0 Radio Police Scanner is the essential police scanner app. There are multiple versions available. The free version is great if it includes the stations you need. The pro version simply adds more radio stations. The stations hook into more than just police radio transmissions, such as the fire department and certain ambulances. The iPad version is a welcome improvement from the upscaled iPhone version. What makes this app great is the interface and the content. The app is easy to use and has stations for pretty much any location you would want. Important codes are given to you within the app. These codes help you interpret what the officers are actually talking about. Airplay is built into the app and the audio will play in the background while you do other things on your device. 5-0 Radio Police Scanner is the essential app. Grab the version you need today (links below)

What is it about?

The largest collection of live police, firefighter, aircraft, railroad, emergency, news, and ham radios. Be the first to know about weather, news, and crime updates.

App Details

Version
56.0.0
Rating
(424668)
Size
46Mb
Genre
News Utilities
Last updated
January 8, 2024
Release date
February 18, 2010
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App Store Description

The largest collection of live police, firefighter, aircraft, railroad, emergency, news, and ham radios. Be the first to know about weather, news, and crime updates.

Thanks for making 5-0 Radio the most downloaded police scanner app on the market. This app is one of top 100 most downloaded iOS apps since 2009 with tens of millions of users.

Features
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- New “Feeds with Active Alerts” feature that shows you feeds with interesting on-going activity and breaking news happening right now along with a description of the alert, breaking info, location, and feed.
- Listen to feeds in the background. You can run other apps while listening to the police. Pause the feeds via the media controls on your device.
- Automatically attempts to reconnect the feed if you lose the connection.
- Listen to feeds on your desktop/laptop computer. Email yourself a link to the feed, and open that link on your browser or with your favorite mp3 player.
- Ability to add custom feeds
- Chat with other users
- The web browser also automatically detects feeds and integrates it with the radio. Now you can add feeds from the web by simply tapping on the feed's link via our browser.
- Share feeds with your friends by email. They do not need to buy this app to listen with you. They can listen in with any device that has a web browser.
- Worldwide coverage. Listen to feeds from the United States, Canada, Australia and more. Our app is always expanding and looking for new police radios to tap into.
- List scanners by county. Don't just list all feeds in a state, get only the ones that are from your city/county.
- Integrated map that finds your location and the location of the feed. Now you can find where the action is happening and follow along.
- Built-in police/EMS/fire/military codes and phonetic alphabet for easy interpretation. Good for any beginners who do not have the proper training and have trouble remembering what the codes mean.
- Save your favorites to the front screen of the app for quick one-tap access.
- This app will dynamically grab a new list of sources so that you will always be the first to get any new police feeds out there.
- See the popularity of each feed. Each feed lists the number of listeners who are following the action along with you.
- Choose new skins or make your own. Skins can be any photo you choose from your photos library.
- New police feeds and others are added on an hourly basis, so keep checking if we added yours recently.

Upgrade to 5-0 Radio Pro to remove ads, add even more feeds, and new features.

Legality
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It is legal in most countries to listen to police feeds. However, it is illegal in some places to use this app to aid in the commission of a crime or to pose as a police officer when you are not. It may also be illegal to use it while driving. Please consult your local laws before using this app outside of your home.

Is it fake?
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It's very real. Each feed comes from a person in that region with an expensive police scanner sharing the signal with you via the internet.

Real-time
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The delay between the real radio feed and this app is only a few seconds depending on buffering and internet speeds.

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