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Agencies remain silent on police and fire radios | News

Agencies remain silent on police and fire radios |  News

Anyone with a police scanner in Owensboro-Daviess County may have noticed that it has gone silent.

For the general public – and for the media who previously heard the daily traffic of the city’s police departments – the scanners will remain silent forever.

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