Coastguard Service of the French Customs

Coastguard Service of the French Customs Service garde-côtes de la douane française
Ensign
Agency overview
Formed	1681
Employees	900
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	France
Legal jurisdiction	As per operations jurisdiction
Specialist jurisdictions	Coastal patrol, marine border protection, marine search and rescue. Customs, excise and gambling.
Operational structure
Headquarters	Le Havre
Elected officer responsible	Gabriel Attal, Junior Minister for the Budget, Ministry of Economics and Finance
Agency executives	State Administrator-General Ronan BOILLOT, Director of the National Directorate of the Coastguard of the French Custom Service Administrator of Customs and Indirect Taxes Frédérique LOUIS, Assistant Director
Parent agency	Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes
Services	French West Indies and French Guiana English Channel and North Atlantic Mediterranean Sea
Facilities
Patrol boats	31
Helicopters	7
Aeroplanes	7

The Coastguard Service of the French Customs is a civil administration in charge of the surveillance and protection of the maritime border of France. It ensures a wide variety of offshore and semi-offshore missions, including tax and environmental missions, but also the fight against fraud and offering public service at sea. It also exercises customs and tax control at the maritime borders of the European Union.^[1]