How do police and dispatchers keep from talking over each other?

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I live in a large city and listen to the police scanner sometimes. The back and forth seems very orderly considering there are thousands of police and crimes happening everywhere.

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One or more main channels, as well as many tac channels (tactical channels) specifically for certain uses.

In general though, dispatchers aren’t just on a single frequency, and radio discipline is not hard to learn.

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