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Police Rescue

NSW Police Rescue celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2002.

Duties of Police Rescue include:

  • Rescue of people or domestic animals from actual or threatened danger of physical harm.
  • Rescue from heights, depths & confine spaces.
  • Search for missing bushwalkers / land search.
  • Provide lighting and searching of Crime Scenes.
     

Police Rescue have played an important role in: Wanda Beach murders - beach excavation (1966), Granville Train Disaster (1977), Newcastle earthquake (1989), Thredbo landslide (1997), Search for missing snowboarders (1999), Waterfall Train Disaster (2003).  

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