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Answer by Seeds22
Submitted on 6/29/2005
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The phonetic alphabet is related to the police force because when a police officer pulls a car over or goes to a call and there's cars involved, they will call in the license plate numbers on the cars and use the phonetic alphabet. Sometimes each department has a different word for letters of the alphabet, but some letters are the same. The police department in which I am a Police Explorer has different words for letters from other places. For example if the plates involved in an accident were ABC1234 and ZYX9876, the police officer would give the description of the first car then call out saying Adam Baker Charlie 1234 then give the description of the 2nd car and call out saying Zebra Yankee Xray 9876. This is so the dispatch center can get the letters of the plates without making a mistake. Some letters in the alphabet have similar sounds. People confuse B, G, D and E, so by sing the phonetic alphabet, this confusions won't happen.

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Question by gee
Submitted on 5/21/2004
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how is the phonetic alphabet related to the police force?

Answer by Jaclyn
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The Phonetic alphabet relates to the police force because policemen and women use it to clarify something they've said, perhaphs a street name or address. This is most commonly used when talking over the radio because of static interfering with what they say.

Answer by AJ Jones
Submitted on 5/14/2007
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related? Would you want to say some secret letter code in person? NO! therefore the police and other emergency armed forces created a code alphabet.

Answer by Alfa Whiskey Hotel
Submitted on 7/6/2007
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So that the letters are not confused with another letter that sounds the same

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