Water police, also called bay constables, coastal police, harbor patrols, marine/maritime police/patrol, nautical patrols, port police, or river police are a specialty law enforcement portion of a larger police organization, who patrol in water craft. Their patrol areas may include coastal tidal waters, rivers, estuaries, harbors, lakes, canals or a combination of these.
A NYPD boat on patrol in New York Harbor in 2006
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
Rescue Exercise
A Metropolitan Police launch on the River Thames in London
Police diving is a branch of professional diving carried out by police services. Police divers are usually professional police officers, and may either be employed full-time as divers or as general water police officers, or be volunteers who usually serve in other units but are called in if their diving services are required.
NYPD divers removing material from the Harlem Meer following a murder in the area few days prior.
Police divers in a river in Berlin
Dominica Marine police, maneuver under a Barbadian coast guard ship looking for an inert training explosive
Nesconset FD Scuba rescue team surface ice rescue training
