Water police

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A NYPD boat on patrol in New York Harbor

Water police, also called harbor patrols, port police, marine/maritime police, nautical patrols, bay constables, river police, or maritime law enforcement are police officers, usually a department of a larger police organization, who patrol in water craft. Their patrol areas may be coastal sea waters, rivers, estuaries, harbors, lakes, canals or a combination of these.

Duties and functions[]

Water police are usually responsible for ensuring the safety of water users, enforcing laws relating to water traffic, preventing crime on vessels, banks and shores, providing search and rescue services (either as the main provider or as an initial response unit before more specialized units arrive), and allowing the police to reach locations not easily accessible from land. They may also be responsible for coastal security, environmental law enforcement, immigration and smuggling patrols, and diving search operations (although many police organizations have separate units to handle this). Their operations may coordinate with other agencies with similar assets such as in the United States the various Federal, State or Local authorities may work together to promote or achieve similar enforcement or rescue outcomes. In the United States, a number of states have combined the duties of water police with those of conservation officers.

A rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) used by the UK's North West Police Underwater Search & Marine Unit. It is marked as both POLICE and HEDDLU, as it operates in both England and Wales

Equipment ranges from personal water craft and inflatable boats to large seagoing craft, but most police vessels are small to medium, fast motorboats. In some areas these vessels incorporate a firefighting capability through a fixed deck nozzle.[1] The operators of these vessels are generally trained in many rescue disciplines including first aid, vessel dewatering,[2] and firefighting. They may also be rescue and scuba divers who are specially trained and also boat operators who may engage in towing operations.

List of water police units[]

Gallery[]

  • A Metropolitan Police launch on the River Thames in London

  • Patrol boat of the Wasserschutzpolizei of Hamburg/Germany

  • A Chicago Police Department boat on Lake Michigan

  • Police boat in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England

  • Helsinki Police Department patrol Boats 491, 192, and 493 in front of ice breaker at Katajanokka, Helsinki, Finland.

  • Town of Oyster Bay constable on patrol in waters on the north shore of Long Island, NY

  • Boats of the Marine Section of the Bermuda Police Service at Barr's Bay, in Hamilton, Bermuda.

  • Indonesian POLAIR (Marine Police) Patrol Boat

  • Consortium, one of the vessels used by the UK's North West Police Underwater Search & Marine Unit

  • A Cheetah catamaran acquired by the UK's North West Police Underwater Search & Marine Unit in 2012, to be used during the London Olympics

  • Hong Kong Police Force Marine Region Police Launch 80

  • Toronto Police Marine Unit

  • Water police patrol boat on the Vistula river in Warsaw, Poland

  • Basque Police (Ertzaintza) Patrol boat

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Deck Guns: Know Your Flow". Fire Engineering. 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  2. ^ "Dewatering Control System". seapart.com. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  3. ^ Police History: Overview - The Future
  4. ^ 香港警務處－警隊歷史
  5. ^ 水警總區
  6. ^ Website: http://polair.polri.go.id/
  7. ^ "Marine Patrol | Ludington, MI - Official Website".
  8. ^ "CỤC CẢNH SÁT GIAO THÔNG | | Cục cảnh sát giao thông".

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