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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 land-based police to reach locations not easily accessible.
The Bureau of Water Supply Police was the first police agency in upstate New York with a multiple county police jurisdiction. [1] In 1908, Rhinelander Waldo was appointed as Chief of the Board of the Aqueduct Police. At this time, there were approximately 60 men assigned to the force.
The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Police Department is a small full service police department located in the U.S. state of Maryland. Its main purpose is to protect water that runs through and around the water treatment plants operated by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC). They also help the WSSC in traffic control ...
The New South Wales Police Force purchased a water cannon in 2007 and had it deployed on standby during an APEC meeting in Sydney that year. [17] [18] It was the first purchase of a water cannon by a police service in Australia. However, it ended up not being used during the APEC meeting, and was never used during any instance of civil unrest.
California’s water police struggle to track where water is flowing and whether someone is taking more than they’re supposed to. A criminal case unfolding in the San Joaquin Valley underscores ...
The mother of a 13-year-old boy arrested by armed police after pointing a water pistol at his younger sister has hit out at the watchdog who declared the officer’s actions “reasonable”.. The ...
The MDC has its own police force to enforce the law and protect its various operations. According to the MDC use of its facilities is "regulated by the Connecticut Department of Public Health (Section 24-43c of the Connecticut General Statutes) and enforced by MDC police." [16] The current Chief of Police of The MDC Police is Henry Martin. [17]
Image credits: nineteensickhorses #3. Heather Teague. She was dragged into the woods from a riverbank. The abduction was witnessed from across the river by a man using a telescope.