10-4 gets 86'ed

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NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams last night did a story: "10-4 gets  
86'ed." The links are below, along with another news story.
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Ten-Codes Over and Out 

 
 
November 13, 2006
Lindsey Ward

State police are changing the way they communicate with one another. 
The state law enforcement agency decided to abandon the ten-codes and instead 
 use common language. 
The changes will ensure all local, state and federal agencies can communicate 
 in a crisis situation.  
September 11th sparked an interest in a need for change. Many of the  
emergency responders had different codes creating a communication crisis. 
“There were a whole bunch of agencies trying to work together. Some used  
ten-codes, some didn't use ten-codes, some use plain language and with the  
agencies using ten-codes. Not every agency's ten-code means the same thing as  the 
next. So there was a lot of confusion,” Trooper Nelson from the Virginia  
State Police said. 
Police agencies have used ten-codes since the 1920s and said they plan to  
keep the most universal-ten four.

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