U'S' Coast Guard Shiprider Programs: Combined Maritime Law Enforcement Operations With Foreign Partn

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U.S. Coast GuardShiprider Programs Combined
Maritime Law Enforcement Operations With Foreign
Partners
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Shiprider What is it?

• Q What Is Shiprider?
• A Shiprider is
• 1. An Authority Bucket
• 2. A Capability Gap Filler
• 3. A Competency Development Tool
• 4. A Partnership Generation Device
• 5. All of the Above

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Shiprider Ops Something for Everyone

• Enhances Foreign Partner MLE Competency
  Capability
• CD, Migrant Ops, Fisheries Enforcement, etc.
• Shiprider Ops fill capability competency gaps
  for foreign partners
• Enhances U.S. Authority to Operate
• Shipriders can fill authority gaps for USCG/DOD
• Go where the threats are (i.e. littoral ops in CD
  mission)
• Expand CG/COCOM interoperability- cooperation
• Set foundation for exporting MLE Ops to DOD
  platforms w/embarked USCG and foreign partner
  shipriders
• Africa Partnership Station
• PACOM USCGC deployment
• Optimize USCG OOH investment ISO DOS/COCOM TSC
• You dont just get an asset - - you get an asset
  that can do stuff

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Shiprider OperationsStart-Up Planning Execution

• Identify USG/Country Team/Foreign Partner mission
  objectives
• Foreign partner co-lead for mission planning/op
  objectives
• Verify foreign partner domestic authorities,
  competencies capabilities
• Identify/close gaps
• Engage interagency partners (e.g. DOS, DOJ, DASD
  CN) to support objectives
• Leverage existing bilateral agreements or
  establish new permanent or ad hoc agreements to
  support mission objectives
• CG has standing C-175 authority from DOS for MLE
  agreements
• Over 30 CD, migrant interdiction and fisheries
  agreements in force
• Identify pre-mission support requirements
• Training Equipment, Legal, C2 relationships
  Command Center Staffing for U.S. and Foreign
  Partner TACON

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Where In The World Is Shiprider?Central and
South America CD Ops

• 20 Counter Drug Bilateral Agreements
• Virtually ALL have Shiprider Provisions
• Key Shiprider Bilats Panama, Costa Rica,
  Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala
• Littoral Ops Under Shipriders Authority
• Immediate Boardings Under Shipriders Authority
  of Suspect Vsls Flagged In Shipriders State
• Critical In Developing Broader Partnerships

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U.S. Canada Protecting the Northern Maritime
Border

• Two months - Two locations (WA-Vancouver St.
  Lawrence River)
• 40 officers jointly trained and fully empowered
  to enforce the laws of both countries
• IBET intelligence driven interdiction pulse
  operations 8-10 hours daily
• USCG RCMP forces on the water, while IBET
• partners operate ashore
• Boarded over 187 vessels - Seized 214 pounds of
• marijuana, over 1 million contraband
  cigarettes, six
• vessels and 38,000 (CAN) intended to fund
  smuggling activities
• Conducted several search-and-rescue missions and
• collected intelligence for shore-based
  investigators on
• both sides of the border
• Intelligence and land-based seizures suggest that
  there
• has been substantial displacement of criminality
  due

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Where In The World Is Shiprider?MLE Ops For
Africa Partnership Station

• COCOMs goals
• MLE capability for Naval Component
• Develop Capability Competency of Partners
• Two Ops With Cape Verde CG
• June 2008 USCGC DALLAS
• October 2008 USS LEYTE GULF w/ USCG LEDET
• Results
• 14 boardings
• Extensive Training w/ CV LEDET
• Basis for Permanent Bilat
• First US MLE Bilat in Region

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Shiprider Goes Great With FishWestern Pacific
Fisheries Enforcement

• IUU Fishing Threat In Western Pacific
• Vessels Fishing Illegally In EEZs of Various
  Western Pacific States
• Authority Gap for US
• Not A Violation Of US Law To Steal Another
  Nations Fish
• Huge Impact On Migratory Species Worldwide
  Fisheries Management Efforts
• Enter Shiprider Within 12 Months US Developed
  Five Shiprider Agreements With Key States More
  Anticipated
• Vastly Increases Areas In Which U.S. Assets Can
  Patrol With Authority To Act
• Stop Taking Pictures and Writing Strongly Worded
  Letters Start Boarding and Delivery of
  Consequences
• Fisheries - Opens Doors To Broader Partnerships

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Questions?
LCDR Brian Robinson Chief, Operations Law
Group U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters 202-372-3798
(office) 202-441-4971 (mobile)