Such popular TV shows as CHiPS, Starsky & Hutch, and the Wheel of Fortune, have featured versions of the LAPD Radio Alphabet, thus making its unique code words familiar to the American public. Some differing versions of the LAPD Radio Alphabet include “Yellow” or “Yesterday” for the letter Y, “Nancy” for the letter N, “Easy” for the letter E, and “Baker” or “Bravo” for the letter B. This includes a spelling alphabet which helps people from different language backgrounds to understand and pronounce specific letters. For example, to report a vehicle’s license plate which read “KBX788,” an officer would say, “King, Boy, Robert, Seven, Eight, Eight.” The NATO alphabet became effective in 1956 and a few years later turned into the established universal phonetic alphabet for all military civilian and amateur radio. Letter Phonetic Letter Phonetic Letter Phonetic Letter Phonetic Letter Phonetic A: ALPHA: G: GOLF: M: MIKE: S: SIERRA: Y: YANKEE B: BRAVO: H: HOTEL: N: NOVEMBER: T. The purpose of the phonetic alphabet is to ensure that letters are clearly understood even when speech is distorted or hard to hear. Like the Phonetic Alphabet developed by the ICAO, the LAPD Radio Alphabet replaces letters in a message with names and words, in order to ensure accuracy in understanding. The NATO phonetic alphabet is a spelling alphabet used by airline pilots, police, members of the military, and other officials when communicating over radio or telephone. More informally, this has become known as the police alphabet and has been picked up by police forces throughout the US. State and local police departments across California have developed what has become known as the “LAPD Radio Alphabet,” named after the Los Angeles Police Department’s spelling method of radio communication.
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