Dive Team

The Green Bay Police Department Dive Team is comprised of nine divers and six tenders. 

Diver Certifications

Each diver has certifications in areas such as:

  • Emergency Response Diving
  • Evidence Collection
  • Ice Diving
  • Lift/Salvage
  • Underwater Explosive Search Diving

Training

Our team trains monthly, throughout the year. We focus heavily on zero visibility dive operations because of our Fox and East River’s challenging environment. Repeated training topics in both summer and winter months include search techniques for:

  • Automobile
  • Body
  • Evidence
  • Explosives

Equipment

Green Bay Police Department Dive Team truckOur team is equipped with a 30 foot Pierce Dive Truck allowing us to have all dive gear mobile in the event of a regional and nationwide response requirement. The Team has three boats and numerous sonar units, enabling us to dive in any conditions and have a high success rate of target location.

Top Tier Standards

We will continue to maintain top tier training standards in order to both maintain and enhance our state of readiness and experience, while making our community a safer place to live.