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	Boston Police All Boston Police District channels plus Citywide and Interagency Operations. BPD Special Ops may be locked out during incidents. Status: Boston Police has moved to full time encryption so this feed is shutting down. Archives will remain as long as possible	Public Safety	0	HTML5 Web Player Static URL ($$) Advanced Web Player ($$)		Offline

Feed Notes

Due to BPD encrypting all channels this feed will be shut down on Saturday, August 8th

Agency: Boston Police Department
Scanner: BCD996XT using ProScan

Frequencies

• BPD Downtown/Chastwn/E. Boston (A-1/A-7) - 460.45000 - Dispatch
• BPD Roxbury/Mattapan (B-2/B-3) - 460.22500 - Dispatch
• BPD Jamaica Plain/Hyde Pk/W Roxbury/Roslindale /(E-5/E-13/E-18) - 460.40000 - Dispatch
• BPD Back Bay/South End/Allston/Brighton (D-4/D-14) - 460.50000 - Dispatch
• BPD S. Boston/Dorchester (C-6/C-11) - 460.17500 - Dispatch
• BPD Housing Police - 453.35000 - Dispatch
• BPD Citywide Events - 460.35000 - Citywide channel active during events
• BPD Special Operations - 460.05000 - Historically this has been a Citywide channel active during events. Going forward this may be temporarily locked out during an incident as BPD SWAT also uses this channel. Cleared with Broadcastify staff 11/6/20
• Interagency Operations (BEMS, BFD) - 460.27500 - InterOp. Often heard during Citywide events

The following information is pulled from https://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/tutorials/boston-police-codes/

Unit designators are usually expressed as four characters, like “Lima 211.” These are often referenced as callsigns. The first, a letter, denotes a location: each district has one, listed below. The second character denotes the type of unit, e.g. a wagon, 2-man unit, K9 unit, etc. The last two is a unique unit identifier.

Unit Callsigns

• Alpha - District 1 (A-1)
• Bravo - District 2 (B-2)
• Charlie - District 3 (B-3)
• Delta - District 4 (D-4)
• Echo - District 5 (E-5)
• Fox - District 6 (C-6)
• Gold - District 7 (A-7)
• Harry - District 11 (C-11)
• Jake - District 13 (E-13)
• Kilo - District 14 (D-14)
• Lima - District 18 (E-18)
• Mike - Special Events
• Nova - Operations
• Romeo - Paid Detail
• Silver - Bureau of Administrative Services (BAS)
• Tango - Special Ops
• Victor - Detective
• X-Ray - Internal Affairs
• Yankee - Administration
• Zebra - Housing Police

Unit Types

• 1 - Rapid Response
• 2 - Patrol Wagon
• 3 - Motorcycle
• 4 - Neighborhood Services Unit
• 5 - K9 Unit
• 6 - Neighborhood Beat Officers
• 7 - Mounted Patrol
• 8 - Detective
• 9 - Sergeant
• A - Lieutenant
• B - Captain
• C - Command
• K - Anti-crime Unit