Maritime Law Enforcement

1. Territorial Water Security
2. Port Security Inspection
3. Maintaining Maritime Traffic Order
4. Investigation of Smuggling and Illegal Entry/Exit

Territorial Water Security

For the purpose of protecting Taiwan’s marine/coastal order, ensuring national security and safeguarding the people’s interest, CGA since its establishment on January 28, 2000 has dispatched vessels to patrol the territorial waters, adjacent regions and economic waters in accordance with the administrative concept of “open ocean, security assurance and public services” in order to fend off smuggling and illegal entry and maintain ocean traffic order. Each year it reduces the area of controlled coastal zones demarcated for national defense and encourages the public to access the ocean and utilize the ocean in order to help realize the plan for establishing an oceanic country. It also plays an active party in international cooperation against maritime crimes in order to maintain territorial water security.