Marine Patrol

Teamwork: For Better Boating

The BOAT Program can help you start a marine program or improve existing operations.

Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2012

New Tip Leads Aruba to Search for Holloway Girl

A police diving team will soon do preliminary work at the spot where officials believe the picture was taken, spokeswoman Ann Angela said.

Posted Sunday, March 21, 2010

USFA: Diving Equipment Recall

Diving Equipment Recalled by Halcyon Manufacturing Due to Drowning Hazard

Posted Monday, October 5, 2009

U.S. Border Patrol Tests New Boat

Monday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection showed off its prototype for the next generation of its high speed interceptor boats. KING 5's Rob Piercy reports.

Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009

NY Crash Highlights Role of PD Divers

Wearing dry suits and masks equipped with radios that allow them to communicate with their boat and each other, they more often are sent to retrieve the dumped bodies of homicide victims or to look for crime scene evidence like guns.

Posted Monday, August 10, 2009

Foreign officers help fight smuggling at US ports

While working with foreign officers at U.S. seaports may yield valuable information, criminal justice experts say, the practice also raises a question about whether sharing intelligence with an officer from another country particularly one notorious for corruption like Mexico could compromise sensitive investigations.

Posted Monday, June 22, 2009

First US swine flu death; school closings possible

A Mexico City toddler who traveled to the Texas with family to visit relatives is the first confirmed death in the U.S. from swine flu. The boy, who was nearly 2 years old, arrived in the border city of Brownsville with "underlying health issues" on April 4 and developed flu symptoms four days later, the Texas Department of State Health Services said. He was taken to a Brownsville hospital April 13 and transferred to the following day to a hospital in Houston, where he died Monday night.

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009