Police watercraft
Police watercraft are boats or other vessels that are used by police agencies to patrol bodies of water. They are usually employed on major rivers,[1] in enclosed harbors near cities or in places where a stronger presence than that offered by the Harbourmaster or Coast Guard is needed.
Police boats sometimes have high-performance engines in order to catch up with fleeing fugitives on the water. They have been used since the beginning of the 20th century.[2]
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Types of police boats
- Patrol boat
- fast pursuit vessels
- Motorboat
- Airboat
- Rigid-hulled inflatable boat
Gallery of police boats
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Boat of the Wasserschutzpolizei of Germany.
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New South Wales Police Force vessel OPV Nemesis, the largest purpose-built police boat in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Anti terrorism Police boat in Venice
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New South Wales Police Force boat patrolling Port Jackson prior to APEC Australia 2007.
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Boats of the Bermuda Police Service Marine Section at Barr's Bay, in Hamilton, Bermuda.
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Police boat, Liverpool, England, October 2009
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Metropolitan Police boat John Harriott IV speeding down the Thames to an incident in June 2012.
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Gabriel Franks on the Thames in 2005
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Nina Mackay II on the Thames in 2013
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Policework can be fun (The Netherlands, river Lek) in 2012
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Police boats in the Biesbosch (The Netherlands) in 2008
Agencies with police boats
- New York City Police Department and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department - waterways around NYC
- Chicago Police Department - Chicago River and Lake Michigan[3]
- Jacksonville Sheriff's Office
- Toronto Police Service - waters off Toronto
- Peel Regional Police - waters off Mississauga
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police - inland waterways in areas of enforcement
- United States Park Police - waters in National Park Service areas around NYC
- Ontario Provincial Police - lakes and other waterways in Ontario
- Hong Kong Police - waters off Hong Kong
- New Zealand Police - waters off Auckland and Wellington
- San Francisco Police Department - waters off San Francisco
- San Diego Harbor Police - San Diego Bay and tidelands
- Long Beach Harbor Patrol - Port of Long Beach
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Air and Marine - Customs waters of the United States
- Canada Border Services Agency - Customs enforcement in Canadian waters.
See also
References
- ↑ Thames Police Museum
- ↑ 1903 New York Harbor Police boat patrol capturing pirates
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External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
