Boston Live Police Scanner
Boston Police and Fire activity across Suffolk County.
Boston Live Police Scanner covers Boston Police Department and Boston Fire Department activity, with court outcomes drawn from Suffolk County.
Boston Police work through districts across a compact, dense city, with Suffolk County covering Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop. The surrounding metro runs through dozens of separate municipalities with their own departments, so coverage always names the specific city.
Traffic coverage follows I-93 and the tunnels, I-90 through the city, Storrow Drive and Route 128. The tunnel system means an incident underground can close a major route with very little warning and no easy detour.
Boston Fire Department covers fire and EMS in the city, with Boston EMS handling medical response. Suffolk County court records supply the charging decisions and case outcomes that follow an arrest.
Coverage is published on Facebook, where the page posts throughout the day as incidents develop. Every post is checked against an official source before it goes up — an agency release, a court record, or confirmed reporting from a named outlet. When a detail cannot be verified, it does not run.
Agencies and sources followed
Public safety activity and records for Suffolk County are drawn from these sources.
- BPD
- Boston Fire
- Suffolk County Courts
What gets published
Active incidents as they develop, major crashes and road closures, missing-person alerts from official clearinghouses, fire and EMS responses, arrests and charging decisions, and court outcomes once they are on the record. Follow-ups matter as much as the original post — when a case resolves differently than it first appeared, that correction runs too.
What does not get published: unverified scanner chatter, names of people who have not been charged, addresses of private individuals, or anything that would interfere with an active response.
Follow Boston Live Police Scanner
Coverage is published on Facebook. Following the page is free, and it is where every update for Suffolk County goes first.