Category: Police Boats

Metropolitan Police Service
Targa 32 Sir Robert Peel III, fleet number MP9

Northumbria Police
This 10m marine unit is based on the River Tyne and is used for river and sea operations. It can travel at yup to 45 knotts with up to 8 people on baord.

YX66 CJF
Yorkshire Regional Marine and Underwater Search
Peugeot Boxer

YX16 GVB
Yorkshire Regional Marine and Underwater Search
VW Amarok
Towing a rib

YX64 HMU
Yorkshire and the Humber
Vauxhall Movano
Regional Marine Unit

Metropolitan Police launch in action on the River Thames

Cumbria Constabulary Cheetah Marine launch used on Lake Windermere

Royal Gibraltar Police Boat – Sir John Chapple

Four powerful motors propel the craft

The unit at speed

YX60 DNJ A Yorkshire and the Humber Land Rover Defender used for underwater searches



The rear

YJ08 BYB A Yorkshire and the Humber Mercedes truck used for underwater and specialist searches



The overhead view

A police marine unit looking for a missing person in a river



A second shot

The Met Police have a number of these black fast intervention ribs for use on the Thames.



A closer look.

Hampshire Constabulary operate this black Ribcraft eight-seater boat.

Dorset Police used this jet ski to patrol the Weymouth coastline during the Olympic events held there in 2012. It is fitted with small blue flashing lights.

A company called Air Sea Land Group have designed and built this demonstration police boat. It is designed to bridge the gap between smaller boats that can easily by towed behind a van and those that are larger and stay on the water all of the time. This boat has twin hulls that fold in to make it narrow enough to be towed on the roads. In the photograph, only one side has been folded in.



A look down the port side of the vessel showing the police markings.

WA56 GRF Accompanying a Devon & Cornwall Land Rover is police boat Solitaire.



Sister vessel Rosy in use.



A closer look at the high visibility wording on the vessels, showing the partnership between the police and the Environment Agency.



A third sister vessel called Mor Teg.

Commander is a twin-hulled vessel that is operated by Hampshire Police. Notice the crane on the rear to launch and retrieve the rib.

Ministry of Defence boat Excalibur is seen here moored in central London.



The rear view of the vessel and rib. Both have two blue flashing lights affixed.

Here a Met Police launch travels at speed on a demonstration run with various police staff aboard.



The rear view of the vessel without the additional passengers.

This boat is planned to be built by Lochin Marine for Hampshire. The computer generated image shows a catamaran called a Lochin SB1100 or Lochin SB1200 (11m or 12m). The actual boat should be ready by mid-2012.

This boat is planned to be built by Lochin Marine for Hampshire. The computer generated image shows a Lochin 366 Police Launch (11m) or Lochin 40 Police Launch (12m). The real boat should be ready by mid-2012.

Nina Mackay II is a launch used by the Met police on the River Thames. It carries blue and yellow battenburg markings and is assigned code MP7. Nina Mackay was a Met police officer that was killed by someone she was trying to arrest in 1997.

The Met Police operate this black rigid inflatable boat. It can carry 12 officers seated at high speed down the Thames. Notice the two blue multi-direction flashing LEDs on the rear framework.

Here a Hampshire Police launch is made to look like a toy by the dominating Queen Elizabeth cruise liner.

YJ10 ADU This is an Iveco Eurocargo that is run by West Yorkshire Police as an underwater and specialist search unit. It carries all of the necessary equipment and facilities for police divers.



The rear view showing the rear entry door. Small blue flashing leds are placed around the bodywork, as well as white scene lighting.

This Police boat is built by Mac Boats from New Zealand. Due to the unique construction of the hull, the boat  is claimed to be virtually indestructible and unsinkable.

This is a Met Police boat MP1 Patrick Colquhoun. It is the largest type of launch that the service use and is seen here at its unit headquarters with the towers of Canary Wharf seen in the background. Patrick Colquhoun was the founder of the Thames River Police in 1798.

P160 PYW This land Rover Defender 90 is a 1996 vehicle that was still in used by the Met Police’s Marine Unit in 2009. It is fitted with a winch on the front and the standard Met livery.