Sheriff Dotson and the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office have begun the early stages of creating a Dive and Recovery Team for Lawrence County. The team will assist in any water related search and rescue efforts in the county.
The team is currently made up of 12 members, 3 of which are certified divers. The team will assist the Sheriff’s Office with drowning victim recovery and evidence recovery. Sheriff Dotson’s Dive and Recovery Team is receiving grant funding from the Office Of Emergency Management for equipment needed. The team is made up of volunteers from throughout the county including several Sheriff’s Deputies and Reserve Officers as well as trained personnel from several fire departments.
Sheriff Dotson has reflected on the flooding of April 2011 and has taken the many different challenges into consideration when constructing this team. This team will be attached to the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Rescue Boat which is housed and maintained by the Lynn Fire Department. Training exercises are planned to begin in February of 2012 for the team. The team will focus on boat rescue training in the event of future floods, boat distress rescues in the event a boat in the county becomes disabled, drowning victim recovery, water searches and evidence recovery.
Also the team has benefited from several donations by individuals and Lawrence County businesses including a trailer donated by Donald Bunn, drag equipment manufactured by Hi-Spec Tooling of Imboden, tires donated by Carl Birmingham, and Lawrence County Dive Team T-shirts provided by Imbodenlive.com.
For more information and updates concerning the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office, visit their website at www.lawrencecountysheriffsoffice.com .
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Very cool.
Another good thing going on in our county. Seem every summer someone goes missing in the water…..
That is good, I don’t ever remember Lawrence County ever having one before
This is good info to know
That is a great addition!
Great job Sheriff Jody
If you think about it, it only makes since! We have a ton of waterways in our county
Great idea, sounds like a plan. I hope it is never needed but at least we have something in place in the event of an emergency
That is wonderful, last spring we never thought we would see such high water and we were lucky here in Lawrence County with no loss of life but their was that poor lady in Randolph County and the countless number effected by the flooding.
I am proud to see the sheriffs department putting things in place, just in case.
I am an avid boater, having a water team in Lawrence County is an asset. Just the peace of mind knowing that if you had a problem or emergency in the rivers is a great feeling. Also I am sure that evidence gets tossed into water all the time, being able to retrieve this would really help the county.
I am proud to see the County expand, forward is always a good way for a department to go
Good Luck, hope to read more about this soon
This can be a big advantage for the county, other counties like Craighead, Greene and Sharp all have dive organizations either fire depts or police.
In the event the “Dive and Recovery Team” was needed I would rather have a trained force in place rather than bringing in someone from other counties or even worse having nothing in place.
Way to go Sheriff, Good Luck!!!