Listening to Boston police radio transmissions over old-school scanner equipment will soon yield nothing but dead air.

The Boston Police Department said Wednesday that it will convert its analog radio system to a “digital encrypted” system on Saturday.

“This means that Boston Police radio transmissions will no longer be available via traditional analog radio scanning equipment,” the police department said in a social media post .

Officials said a publicly accessible Boston police radio feed will be made available online at radio.rapidsos.com/boston , but the feed listeners hear won’t be in real time. The department said the new radio system will be “delayed slightly to prioritize public and officers’ safety.”

“In most cases the delay will be approximately 5 minutes,” Mariellen Burn

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