All-points bulletin
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all-points-bulletin-171-8867644
title:
All-points bulletin
text:
An all-points bulletin (APB) is an electronic information broadcast sent from one sender to a group of recipients, to rapidly communicate an important message. The technology used to send this broadcast has varied throughout time, and includes teletype, radio, computerized bulletin board systems (CBBS), and the Internet. The earliest known record of the all-points bulletin is when used by United States police, which dates the term to 1947. Although used in the field of policing at the time, the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Police broadcast
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-points_bulletin
date created:
2006-05-12T05:22:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T09:43:10Z
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