Search and Rescue
Because of Mount Hood and other extensive outdoor recreational areas in Clackamas County, the Clackamas County sheriff's office maintains an extensive search and rescue capability. Sheriff's office personnel do not conduct the actual search activities, but instead coordinate the complicated activities of different search and rescue organizations. Members of the Search and Rescue Team of the sheriff's office are primarily patrol deputies who are assigned search and rescue as a collateral duty. Additionally, the sheriff's office fields a dive rescue team of qualified rescue divers and swift water rescue technicians.
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