Introduction to frequency scanning
First of all, you need a scanner, you can pick 'em up for around $700 at dick smiths. Just dont get any of those crappy american models, coz they block off the 800mhz and 900mhz ranges that are commonly used by cellphones and cordless, uniden are the best. Also alot of their state police freqeuncies are blocked too.

Frequency Range list mainly for NZ

Police UHF - 485.000mhz - 488.200mhz
Police VHF - 75.200mhz - 76.200mhz
Cordless Base - 30.75mhz - 30.775mhz
Cordless handset - 39.775mhz - 40.475mhz
Cellphones(025 analogue) 870.000mhz - 890.000mhz

Thats a breif run-down on all the interesting frequencies that are used in New Zealand, The police uhf is mainly used by the handsets that the police carry with them. VHF is the radios that are fitted into all the patrol cars, All the local police frequencies are linked together anyways, so if you can hear one, you can hear it all.

More Specific Frequencies that I know definatly work

485.225 - Palmerston North Police UHF Ch1
485.300 - Feilding and Masterton and probably lots of other towns
486.575 - PN ch2, and pahiatua, etc
487.375 - Special Ops
30.100 - my neighbours cordless(hehe)

if you want more shit, just check out nzscanners.org.nz

Police Radio Abbrieviations

10-1 = attention all units
10-2 = on the way
10-3 = free
10-4 = repeat
10-5 = off for a 5 minute break
10-6 = change channel suffix by channel number
10-7 = attending
10-8 = base
10-9 = urgent
10-10 = man down
10-0 = knock off time (finished for the day)


4C = Paperwork
4F = Fingerprinting
4L = lift
4Q = Enquiries ie. "4q at 67 Seddon street"
4S = Service car/petrol/lpg
4U = Lockup
4B = Mortuary work
4M = Off for a lunchbreak


3F = Foot patrol
3H = Bar/Hotel
3R = Road Block/Booze bus
3T = Pulling someone over ie. "going 3T on Wood street"
3W = Observations


1A = Alarm been set off
1B = Bomb threat
1C = Suspicious
1D = Domestic dispute
1F = Fire
1P = Insecure Premises
1S = Sudden death
1X = Suacide
1K = Drunk
1Z = Accident
1M = Psychiatric


2A = Advising next of kin of death
2K = Found property (stolen)
2L = Lost property
2M = Missing person
2P = Public Relations
2S = Court summons
2W = Warrent for arrest

Result codes

K-1 = Settled
K-2 = Nobody home, task not completed
K-3 = Nobody to blame, no further action taken
K-4 = Told off/Given a warning
K-5 = Reported
K-6 = Offense report
K-7 = Left to special ie. Investigators
K-8 = Backup
K-9 = Arresting persons
K-0 = Task only

Other abbriviations...
"QVR" = Query Vechile registration. For looking up ownership of a given vechile.
"QP" = Query persons. Looking up persons info, Age, sex, residence, DOB, previous convictions, bail info, Licence class, wanted/not wanted etc.
"Delta Unit" = Sniffer dogs
"Dingo" = Paddy wagon I think
"Dah-Lig-no" = Drivers license number
"Juvey" = Juvaniles/Underage
"burg" = Burglary
"watch house" = central police station, where they take ya back to after been arrested

And thats all you should need to know, thanks for reading
-carcus666