10-20 Location. 10-21 Call by phone. 10-22 Disregard. 10-23 Arrived at Scene.
This particular code is used to indicate an officer's end of tour. While 10-42 is most frequently used when an officer has completed his tour of service for the day, it is also used in conjunction with funeral proceedings when an officer has been killed in the line of duty.
The number “10” is a size designator with no numerical meaning. The number “32” refers to 32 threads per inch. You can identify a 10-32 screw by measuring the diameter at exactly 3/16″ (4.76 mm).
12 is a slang term for police or any law enforcement officials of uncertain origin. Possible sources include the police radio code "10-12" and the 1968 TV show Adam-12, which followed two Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers and their patrol car, "1-Adam-12."
The sale of alcohol without a license. Class 1 Misdemeanor. 4.1-304 The sale of alcohol to any person who is Class 1 Misdemeanor under the age of 21 or intoxicated.
Message received; OK; acknowledged. 10-47. Lost/Missing person. 10-5.
10-5 Relay to/from. 10-6 Busy. 10-7 Out of Service.
Police officer retirement
Often when an officer retires, a call to dispatch is made. The officer gives a 10-7 code (Out of service) and then a 10-42 code (ending tour of duty).
The phrase essentially means, “What is your location?” or “Identify your position,” but is a corrupted phrase from the original “10-20” used by law enforcement to verbally encode their radio transmissions so that non-police listeners would not easily discover police operations, as well as to communicate quicker and ...
10-4 is an affirmative signal: it means “OK.” The ten-codes are credited to Illinois State Police Communications Director Charles Hopper who created them between 1937–40 for use in radio communications among cops. In the 1930s, radio technology was still relatively new and limited.
Medical / Fire Status Codes...
Code 10 Critical Trauma case. Code 20 Acute Trauma case. Code 30 Trauma case. Code 40 Serious case (IV started)
On a film set, 10-1 is the walkie talkie code for the bathroom. While literally meaning you need to pee, using as this as a catch-all saves your film crew from t.m.i.
Whiskycode is a webpage describing some of our codes to evolve the equations of general relativistic hydrodynamics (GRHD) and magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in 3-dimensional Cartesian coordinates on a curved dynamical background.
Code 4 Meaning. “Code 4” means everything is under control or the scene is safe.
10-8 In service/available for assignment.
Five-O, an American slang term for law enforcement. Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series), an American television police drama airing from 1968 to 1980.
Have you ever heard someone ask, “What's your 20?” The term refers to your location. It comes from “10–20” and is part of the Ten Code used by CB radioers, who borrowed and adapted it from the police and emergency services.
ROBBERY INVOLVING A B-PACK. 408. DRUNK. 409. DRUNK DRIVER.
1440 stands for Disables/Stupifies (police radio code)
Basically, “16” refers to the “16 Bars” slang from our previous entry. 16 is just the same as it references the measures within a rap song or references the actual verse of a rap. It may be used as such: “Lisa's 16s are the bomb. They have the chill vibe that I love.”