Question about police procedures.

[TexasProgresive]

1. It probably was a cell phone- may be department issue or personal.

As to radio- cops have never stopped using 2 way radio communications. BTW HAM radio is amateur radio, not to be confused with CB radio. My son is an active HAM. His group have regular meetings on the air and do field day exercises where they build long distance radio nets across the country. These exercises train them in the case of a communications crisis-such as hurricanes, fires and whatever knocking out other means of communications. The HAMS have mobile units complete with generator backup.

One other thing. Before I retired I worked across the street from the county courthouse that housed the jail and the sheriff's office. So there were lots of all kinds of cops around the place; state, counties, cities and game wardens. Often when returning to the office from a remote site I would be behind the police as they approached stop signs. Mostly they just rolled through the intersection and not because they were in a hurry. I would turn into our parking lot as they were parking their car.