Monitor police and emergency news locally with the 5-0 Police Scanner Radio app

The 5-0 Police Scanner Lite is a free app that you can download to your iPhone or iPad that allows you to tap into the largest collection of live police, firefighter, aircraft, railroad, marine, emergency, and ham radios. Get the news as it happens and follow important events or or unfolding crime direct from the official broadcasts to emergency workers.

You can listen in the background while still running other apps and will automatically reconnect if you lose the feed. It even has built-in police/EMS/fire/military/ codes and phonetic alphabet for easy interpretation of the codes emergency workers use to make communication more efficient and fast.

The feed is brought to you from a person in that region with an expensive police scanner and is sharing the signal with you via the Internet, which is legal. The delay between the real radio feed and this app is only a few seconds.

You can find the free app and additional information in the iTunes app store. It also comes in Android.