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Your county's police & fire radio, transcribed as it happens.

Dispatch Watch streams live public-safety radio, turns every call into readable text with AI, and pins it to the street on a live map. Free, no ads, no tracking.

How it works
100% free No ads No tracking 1,000+ counties
CHOOSE YOUR COUNTY

Find your county

Hover the map to see a county, then tap to open it, or switch to the list and search. Live counties open instantly; new ones spin up in about 3 minutes.

Hover a county to see its name, tap to open it.
SEE IT IN ACTION

Try it with San Luis Obispo County

Search and filter the calls, resize your zone, and click a call to see where it dropped and which unit is en route. Everything the live app does, minus the audio.

LIVE TRANSCRIPT · 6 calls
MedicalFirePoliceResolvedIn your zone
YOUR ZONE3 mi
A sample of typical SLO County calls on the real satellite map, zoomable and fully interactive. The red edge flashes when an active call is inside your zone.
WHY IT'S DIFFERENT

Free, private, and fast

No subscription, no paywall, no catch, just the public airwaves, made easy to follow.

100% free

No subscription and no paywall. Bring free API keys at sign-up and the whole thing costs you nothing.

No ads

Not a single ad, banner or pop-up. The screen is for the scanner and the map, nothing else.

No tracking

No third-party trackers and no selling your data. Your account just remembers your counties, that's it.

Fast & live

Transcription lands in near real time and the home page loads instantly, a static map up front, heavy data only when you need it.

Nationwide coverage

1,000+ counties already live, and any county with a public feed can be added on demand in about 3 minutes.

Works everywhere

Phone, tablet or desktop. Install it as an app for alerts, and keep every device on your account in sync.

HOW IT WORKS

From live radio to a map in three steps

1

Pick your county

Search the list or tap your area on the map. Live counties open instantly; new ones build their map and street data on first request.

2

We transcribe the radio

The live scanner feed is transcribed by AI in near real time, with addresses, unit calls and incident types pulled out automatically.

3

Watch it on the map

Every call is geocoded and dropped on a live map of your county, so you can follow active incidents as they move.

INSTALL THE APP

Add it to your phone for alerts

Dispatch Watch installs straight from your browser, no app store. Once it's on your home screen you can turn on notifications for your county.

iPhone / iPad

  1. Open this site in Safari.
  2. Tap the Share button ⬆︎ at the bottom.
  3. Choose Add to Home Screen, then Add.
  4. Open it from your home screen and allow Notifications when asked.

Android

  1. Open this site in Chrome.
  2. Tap the ⋮ menu (top-right).
  3. Choose Install app (or Add to Home screen).
  4. Launch it and tap Allow on the notifications prompt.

Desktop

  1. In Chrome or Edge, open your county's page.
  2. Click the install icon in the address bar (or menu → Install).
  3. Allow notifications to get desk alerts for your zone.

Notifications are opt-in and per-device. You'll only get alerts for the county and zone you choose, turn them off any time in your device settings.

ABOUT

What Dispatch Watch is

Dispatch Watch is a nationwide front-end for public-safety scanner radio. It takes the same live feeds that are already public and makes them legible: transcribing the audio, extracting addresses and unit numbers, and mapping each call so you can actually follow what's going on.

Coverage grows on demand. When you pick a county that isn't live yet, the site builds its boundary, street grid and local map from open data in about 3 minutes, then it's available for everyone.

It's free, with no ads and no tracking. A quick account keeps your saved counties and default in sync and lets you start new feeds. Audio and transcription run on free API keys you provide at sign-up, so the shared keys never run dry.

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