Ingham County (MI) Law Enforcement

ONLINE AUDIO

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/34012

Countywide Law Enforcement

All police departments in Ingham County have a number designator assigned to the department.  
Most departments use this number as the first digit in their unit number. 
The last number correlates to badge number in smaller agencies, or in larger agencies correlates to shift and/or district.
Lansing has their own dispatch channels, East Lansing/MSU have their own dispatch channel, and all other units share an out-county dispatch talkgroup. 
The tac channels are often setup to scan and also pick up traffic on the main dispatch channels. 

AGENCY

1  = Lansing Police Department (Although they use 1, 2, and 3 to designate shifts).
2  = East Lansing Police Department
5  = Ingham County Sheriff Department
6  = Michigan State University Police Department
7  = Ingham County Parks
8  = Lansing Township Police Department
9  = Meridian Township Police Department. Also cover Williamstown Township since 2011.
11 = MSP Post 11
12 = Mason Police Department (12A1-10)
13 = Stockbridge Police Department
14 = Webberville (Patrolled by Ingham County Sheriff, 14A11)
15 = Williamston Police Department (15A1-10)
16 = Unknown... heard on EL/MSU dispatch in late 2024
17 = Delhi Township (Patrolled by Ingham County Sheriff, 17A50-58)
18 = Leslie Police Department (18A80-82)
19 = Heard on 33ICMAIN in early 2025
20 = Lansing Community College Police Department (20A1, 20A2)

TYPE OF UNIT

AC      = Animal Control
AI      = Accident Investigator
Adam    = One man patrol car
Bike    = Bicycle (East Lansing/MSU)
Boston  = Two man patrol car
Charlie = Sergeants or other supervisors. Some agencies in Ingham use badge numbers instead.
David   = Detective
Delta   = Detective
EC      = May be the same as Edward
Edward  = County Emergency Services/County Heavy Rescue
Frank   = Community/School Police Officer / Bicycle (Lansing/Delhi/EL/MSU) 
Henry   = Michigan State University head of security (for contracted security such as medical centers, research)
Ida     = Lansing one man patrol car if two district cars are on at same time- freelance unit in other jurisdictions.
K9      = Canine Unit
Lincoln = Mason School Resource Officer
Mary    = Motorcycle
Mike    = Unknown- heard an MSU unit in March 2025
Nora    = Narcotics (Tri-County Metro)
Ocean   = Lansing Special Ops/SOD
Paul    = Parking assignment (Meridian, East Lansing)
Sam     = Special Assignment Ex. DWI enforcement, ICSD traffic grant unit, training assignment. Alternatively, East Lansing social worker
S       = Non-law enforcement supervisor
SW      = Michigan State University social worker
Tom     = Traffic Unit
Union   = Meridian Township School Resource Officer
William = Ingham County Weighmaster, or Meridian Township Court Officer

NUMBER-ONLY UNITS. Radio users who are not sworn officers and/or special assignment. Many of these correlate to badge numbers if applicable.
1xx     = MSU Breslin Center
2xx     = East Lansing Parking and Code Enforcement. Dispatched on 33ELMSU, have own ops channels. East Lansing supervisors also use 2xx. Correlates to badge number.
4xx     = LCC security and 3 MSU parking enforcement
5xx     = Unknown heard on 33ICMAIN, as well as most of MSU parking enforcement
5xxx    = Ingham County Sheriff special assignment (such as event or transport). Correlates to badge number
6xxx    = MSU special assignment. Correlates to badge number
8xx     = Lansing Township on special assignment or on EL/MSU for mutual aid
9xx     = Meridian Township sergeants. Correlates to badge number
You will also hear several other numbers in use- some agencies have officers use their CAD numbers in special assignment. Many agencies assign these sequentially and are therefore hard to identify in radio traffic, as they can vary quite a bit.


ASSIGNED PATROL AREAS
Note: Law enforcement in Ingham county are very frequently sent to calls outside of their assigned patrol areas, and mutual aid into other jurisdictions is not too uncommon either.
5A5     = Alaiedon Township
5A6     = All County (Countywide)
5A7     = West County (West of Meridian Road)
5A8     = East County (East of Meridian Road)
5A9     = South County
5A10    = North County
5K96    = Same as 5A5, etc.
5A6     = Countywide
5A4x    = Jail transport vans
9A1x    = Meridian/Williamstown township areawide. No specific district.
9A6x    = North of M43, west of Okemos road
9A67    = North of Grand River
9A7x    = North of M43, east of Okemos road
9A79    = East of Okemos Road
9A8x    = South of M43, west of Okemos road
9A89    = South of Grand River
9A9x    = South of M43, east of Okemos road

10 CODES AND OTHER TERMINOLOGY (commonly used)
3500    = Narcotics
10-2    = Secure/signal good
10-6    = stand by
10-7    = temporary out of service (meal break)
10-8    = Back in service
10-9    = Repeat last transmission
10-12   = Transport subject
10-16   = Go to/meet at _
10-20   = Location
10-22   = Cancel/disregard
10-23   = On scene
10-24   = Clear the scene
10-25   = Go report to _
10-26   = Officer down
10-41   = Checking into service (on shift)
10-42   = Out of service for the day (off shift)
10-43   = On scene
10-56   = Intoxicated person
10-68   = ‘Attempt to arrest’, or ‘warrant’ depending on context
10-76   = En route
ATL     = Attempt to locate (10-81)
BOL     = Be on the lookout
B&E     = Breaking and entering
DOA     = Dead on arrival (10-83)
MDOP    = Malicious damage of property
PDA     = vehicle accident w/o injury (10-50)
PI      = vehicle accident with injury (10-50)
PPO     = Personal protective order
TX      = Phone call/phone number/desk work (10-21)
Traffic = conducting traffic stop on vehicle with plate _ (10-38)
UDAA    = Unlawful driving away of automobile (stolen vehicle) (10-80)
UTL     = unable to locate (10-82)

Ingham County and Michigan State Police generally do not like and stay away from 10 codes- the official Ingham County list has about 90 of them, but most have not been heard on the air in years. The ones above are the few that are still used semi-regularly.

For offense codes see the wiki page for Michigan State Police. Offense codes are rarely used in Ingham county.

DISPATCH CHANNELS
33SPEV1-10: Used during county events, as well as for training scenarios. Replace 'CW event' channels on old Harris system.
33ICMAIN  : Used by Sheriff, Lansing Township, Meridian Township, MSP, Stockbridge, Webberville, Williamston, Delhi Township, Leslie. “County main”
33ICOPS   : used during complicated events such as manhunts or vehicle chases. Utilizes full-time ADP encryption. Used during some county-wide or out-county events. Also can be used to carry confidential information.
33ELMSU   : Used by East Lansing PD, Michigan State University DPPS, East Lansing Parking and Code Enforcement for dispatch.
33MSUTAC  : used for MSU PD car to car, also used by various MSU security departments, security operations center, etc for inter-department communications and other ops. Full-time ADP encryption. Much more busy than other Ingham agencies' 'tac' channels.
33ELMOPS  : Not used for dispatch of police, used by same agencies as 33ELMSU. Utilizes full-time ADP encryption. Used for dispatch-type information as well as complicated communications. 
33LANORTH : Used by Lansing PD (north side), and south side after 2 AM. “Metro north”
33LASOUTH : Used by Lansing PD (south side). “Metro south”
33MSUSPEV : Used by MSU Green Coat Security, as well as for interop between police and others during events, and by police during events. “Spev”
33ACMAIN  : Used by Ingham County Animal Control. They seem to have transitioned to using ICMAIN.
33MSUPK1/2: Used by MSU Parking Enforcement. Full-time ADP encryption.
33LCCPD   : Used by Lansing Community College police and security.
33DPSCO   : Used by Lansing schools Department of Public Safety.
- MSU Breslin Center, Special Events, and several campus security divisions use analog UHF radios that could talk to the old Harris radios and had patches to that system. Most Breslin Center activity is on 469.75 MHz, most Special Events is on 462.6. Most of these groups have MPSCS capability but prefer to use their old analog radios for whatever reason. LCC also has a few departments on analog UHF radios. These are the last holdouts on UHF analog, after MSU Parking Enforcement and Greencoat Security in 2024. All other county security, law enforcement, public safety, as well as most public works are now on the MPSCS since 2021. MSU Special Events plan to get onto the MPSCS eventually. Breslin Center may eventually transition to DMR. Some of Ingham County’s Motorola base and mobile radios (all public safety radios serviced by the state) are multi band models to maintain interoperability with old UHF systems (such as those non-PS systems installed by State Electronics, Mobile Communications America, Communcations Services, etc). Most of these base stations however are flashed for 700/800 MHz only. All handhelds are now 700/800 only. Previously, when everyone was on analog UHF, many police radios had local schools, some businesses, etc programmed into their radios with usage agreements, but this is no longer possible without patches as the county has moved to 700/800 P25 and many schools and businesses have been convinced to move to UHF DMR. Many schools, public works, services, etc, have realized this issue and have ditched their relatively new proprietary DMR systems for MPSCS subscriber units since 2021.
- All MPSCS-capable Ingham law enforcement radios have access to 33COM, 33ICMAIN, 33INGFIRE, 33ELMSU, 33LANORTH/SOUTH, 33LEIN, 33ICOPS, 33ELMOPS, 33LANOPS, 33LASOPS, 33P911, MPSCS event channels, 700-MHz simplex, and 33SPEV1-10, and tri-county mutual aid channels. Each agency also has their own car-to-car talkgroups, some have detective bureau talkgroups, and police dispatch talkgroups for nearby counties.
- Each department has their own proprietary tac channel, and a few have several, as well as shared ops channels. Generally, 'tac' channels are in the clear and 'ops' channels are encrypted. Tac channels are car-to-car type talk and ops channels are for dispatch information that is secured from the public, and also used during some complicated multi-jurisdiction events to keep information secure and avoid tying up dispatch channels.

Lansing Police Units

Adam     One Officer unit.
Boston:  Two Officer unit.
David:   Detective.
K-9:     Tracking or Narcotics Dog.

Example:

1 Boston 15 = First shift; Boston type of unit; Badge number.