Police watercraft
Use of watercraft in police operations
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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 harbormaster 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]
Types of police boats
- Patrol boat
- Motorboat
- Airboat
- Rigid-hulled inflatable boat
Gallery of police boats
- Boats of the Bermuda Police Service Marine Section at Barr's Bay
- Combined police/fireboat in Bremen, Germany
- Police patrol boats in Helsinki, Finland
- Police boat, Liverpool, England, October 2009
- London Metropolitan Police boat Gabriel Franks on the Thames in 2005
- London Metropolitan Police boat John Harriott IV on the Thames
- London Metropolitan Police boat Nina Mackay II on the Thames in 2013
- SAFE Boats 33' RIB of the Los Angeles Port Police
- Netherlands Police boats in the Biesbosch in 2008
- Netherlands Police jet ski on the Lek 2012.
- New South Wales Police Force vessel OPV Nemesis
- New South Wales Police Force boat patrolling Port Jackson.
- Anti terrorism Police boat in Venice
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See also
References
- ^ Thames Police Museum
- ^ 1903 New York Harbor Police boat patrol capturing pirates Archived 2007-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
External links
Media related to Police watercraft at Wikimedia Commons