The Niagara Regional Police Service Underwater Search and Recovery Unit provides the public with a highly professional, trained and equipped service capable of extending almost all aspects of forensic investigation and recovery underwater. They bring with them a combined total of over 100 years of hands on police diving experience. All evidence recovered by the USRU is subject to continuity procedures which ensures that the 'best evidence rule' is adhered to in the event the case is brought before the courts. Skeletal remains recovery Air crash investigation Weapons recovery and preservation, among others.
Forensic recovery is a specialized and unique form of occupational diving.
The police diver acts as an underwater detective, using tactics, procedures and forensic techniques in the pursuit of truth. The police diver is merely an extension of the police function, underwater. The ten man unit includes two underwater explosives disposal divers that support the Niagara-Hamilton Wentworth Regional Police Explosives Disposal Alliance with the recovery and render safe of underwater ordnance, commercial explosives, and improvised explosive devices.