Boston Police

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Listen	Feed	Genre	Listeners	Player Selection	Links	Status
	Boston Police All Boston Police District channels plus Citywide and Interagency Operations. BPD Special Ops may be locked out during incidents.	Public Safety	68			Online

Feed Notes

The intermittent disconnects should be solved. I will be keeping an eye on them. A new antenna has been installed so B-2/B-3 should be comnig in clearer. I also moved the scanner and server so interference from TXing should be mitigated.

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