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Miami-Dade County is the most populous county in Florida, home to about 2.7 million people spread across 34 municipalities and a vast stretch of unincorporated neighborhoods that runs from Biscayne Bay to the edge of the Everglades. Its public safety footprint matches that scale. The countywide police force, reorganized as the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office in 2025, patrols the unincorporated areas through district stations like Hammocks in West Kendall, while Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, one of the largest fire departments in the United States, covers nearly the entire county. Add one of the world's busiest cruise ports, a major international airport, packed expressways like the Palmetto and the Dolphin, and an event calendar that swings from the Miami Open to Art Basel, and the region's radio traffic rarely gets a quiet hour, whether it's an overnight patrol shift or the height of hurricane season.
Miami-Dade Police and Fire Hammocks and Central Dispatch, Miami-Dade County, FloridaStart by downloading Scanner Radio, a free app that lets you listen to live police, fire, and EMS radio straight from your phone. Once it's installed, tap the button above to open the Miami-Dade Police and Fire feed. It pairs the Hammocks and Central dispatch channels in one stream, so you hear countywide police and fire traffic together, and it makes a natural starting point for new listeners.
To branch out from there, open Scanner Radio and search "Miami" or "Miami-Dade." You'll find separate feeds for the City of Miami, Hialeah, Miami Beach, and other municipal departments, plus aviation and marine traffic around the port and the airport. No hardware, antenna, or setup required. Just an app and a few seconds to tap into a feed.
A police scanner in Miami-Dade tunes into a network of district dispatch channels, and this feed joins two of the busiest. Hammocks dispatch covers the West Kendall area, a dense sweep of suburban neighborhoods, schools, and shopping corridors in the county's southwest, while central dispatch handles districts closer to the urban core. Expect a steady rhythm of traffic stops, crash responses along Kendall Drive and the Palmetto Expressway, alarm calls, and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units turning out for everything from brush fires on the Everglades fringe to medical calls in high-rise corridors. When something significant breaks, scanner traffic is reliably the first place it surfaces, well ahead of local news alerts. And if the shorthand catches you off guard at first, our guide to police scanner codes explains the most common signals and unit designators.
You can listen to a Miami police scanner using the Scanner Radio app.
Yes. Listening to publicly broadcast scanner traffic is legal in Florida and across the United States. Restrictions only apply to using a scanner while committing a crime.
No. With the Scanner Radio app, you can listen to Miami-Dade police and fire feeds straight from your phone. There is no hardware, antenna, or setup required.
The Miami-Dade Police and Fire - Hammocks Dispatch and Central Dispatch feed is a natural starting point for new listeners. It carries countywide police and fire dispatch from two of the busiest dispatch operations in Miami-Dade County.
It carries the Hammocks dispatch channel, which covers the West Kendall area, and the central dispatch channel serving districts closer to the county's urban core, along with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue traffic in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Search "Miami" or "Miami-Dade" in Scanner Radio to browse every available feed in the area, from municipal police departments to fire rescue and beyond. In a county that stretches from the cruise terminals of PortMiami to the edge of the Everglades, there is rarely a quiet hour on the air.
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