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Ten-codes, especially "10-4" (meaning "understood") first reached public recognition in the mid- to late-1950s through the popular television series Highway Patrol, with Broderick Crawford. [citation needed] Crawford would reach into his patrol car to use the microphone to answer a call and precede his response with "10-4".
Police code. A police code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States. Examples of police codes include "10 codes" (such as 10-4 for "okay" or "acknowledged"—sometimes written X4 or X-4), signals, incident codes, response codes, or ...
List of FIPS country codes. This is a list of FIPS 10-4 country codes for Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions. The two-letter country codes were used by the US government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook.
In the United States, response codes are used to describe a mode of response for an emergency unit responding to a call. They generally vary but often have three basic tiers: Code 3: Respond to the call using lights and sirens. Code 2: Respond to the call with emergency lights, but without sirens. Alternatively, sirens may be used if necessary ...
FIPS 10-4. The FIPS 10-4 standard, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, was a list of two-letter country codes that were used by the U.S. Government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook. The standard was also known as DAFIF 0413 ed 7 ...
10-42 An accident on the road. 10 in the wind Listening to the CB while driving (also known as "10-10 in the wind"). 10-70 A fire. 10-77/10-double-7 No or negative, often said with intensity. 10-100 Restroom break. 10-200 Police needed at _____. (In the trucking-themed movie Smokey and the Bandit, a character jokingly plays off this usage ...
This is a list of FIPS 10-4 region codes from S-U, using a standardized name format, and cross-linking to articles. On September 2, 2008, FIPS 10-4 was one of ten standards withdrawn by NIST as a Federal Information Processing Standard. [1] The list here is the last version of codes. For earlier versions, see link below.
This is a list of FIPS 10-4 region codes from A-C, using a standardized name format, and cross-linking to articles. On September 2, 2008, FIPS 10-4 was one of ten standards withdrawn by NIST as a Federal Information Processing Standard. [1] The list here is the last version of codes. For earlier versions, see link below.