About Us

Code 3,^® Inc. engineers, manufactures and markets a complete line of lighting and sound-based warning products used by professionals in emergency response, utility, service fleet, and industrial settings. Code 3^® has been in business since 1974. Our primary goal is to design products that enhance customer safety, including law enforcement officers, firemen and EMT personnel, as well as all personnel in utility, DOT, and construction industries.

Code 3^®'s headquarters and plant are located in St. Louis, Missouri. We distribute our products to over 70 countries through a network of manufacturer's representatives and distributors serving the public safety, municipal and industrial markets.

Code 3^® employs approximately 200 employees dedicated to finding solutions for the varying needs of our customers. Our team is focused on total customer satisfaction through outstanding personnel, innovative products, seamless customer service, and world-class quality. This is exemplified in our ISO 9001 certification, our Lean Six Sigma processes and our history of product innovations, such as:

• TriCore^® technology provides the brightest lighting technology on the market (Defender^®)
• PriZm^™ II Dual Reflector technology provides a brighter signal for superior visibility and safety (RX 2700^™ lightbar)
• The first two-level lightbar (the MX7000^™)
• The first integrated directional lighting system (ArrowStik^®)
• LED X^™ optical technology provides incredibly bright, high visibility signals when viewed either straight on or off angle

Code 3^® markets its products under the following well-known brand names:

Code 3^® Emergency Lighting and Sound-Based Systems are designed for installation on emergency response vehicles such as police cars, fire apparatus, ambulances, and wreckers. This full-line of lightbars, flashers, sirens, and speakers, includes such well-known products as Defender^®, RX 2700CC^™, MX7000^®, and ArrowStik^®.

PSE Amber^™ Warning Products include a full array of products for utility vehicles, highway maintenance vehicles, industrial trucks and waste recovery vehicles. This line of lighting and sound-based warning devices and accessories includes lightbars, LED, strobe and halogen beacons, interior package lighting, back-up alarms, Department of Transportation systems and spotlights, including such well-known products as TriCore^® NarrowStik^™, Frontier^™ Mini Bar, and ArrowStik^®

Community Outreach is an area Code 3 is proud of.  Code 3 donates to the Missouri Police Chiefs Charitable Organization, BackStoppers, Special Olympics, Toys for Tots as well as many others organizations.  Our employees are also given time off to volunteer in local community outreach organizations.