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Police Diving/ Emergency Response Diving:  Police diving is a branch of professional diving carried out by police services. Police divers are usually sworn 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. [Click here for Public Safety Diving Courses Offered by Omni Divers].

The activities carried out by police divers include:

·         search and recovery diving for evidence and bodies

·         rescue diving for underwater casualties

·         underwater crime scene investigation

·         in France and perhaps elsewhere, diving to arrest submerged suspects underwater

"Public safety diving" is a term coined by Steven J Linton in the 1970's to describe underwater rescue, underwater recovery and underwater investigation conducted by divers working for or under the authority of municipal, state or federal agencies. These divers are typically members of police departments, sheriff's offices, fire rescue agencies, search and rescue teams or providers of emergency medical services. Public Safety Divers (PSDs) can be paid by the previously mentioned agencies or non-paid volunteers.

Police divers are normally police officers who have been trained in the use of diving techniques to recover evidence and occasionally bodies from rivers, canals and the sea. They may also be employed in searching shipping for contraband substances fitted to the outside of hulls to avoid detection. The equipment they use depends on requirements, but the requirement for communications at some sites does often require the use of full-face masks with communication equipment, either with SCUBA or surface supplied equipment.

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