Myanmar Coast Guard

Myanmar Coast Guard
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ကမ်းခြေစောင့်တပ်ဖွဲ့
Racing stripe
Ensign
Agency overview
Formed6 October 2021 (2021-10-06)
Employees30+300 personnel
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionMyanmar
Operational structure
Overseen byMyanmar Navy
HeadquartersYangon
Agency executive
  • Commodore Ko Ko Kyaw[1], Director General

The Myanmar Coast Guard (Burmese: မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ကမ်းခြေစောင့်တပ်ဖွဲ့) is a maritime law enforcement agency formed to safeguard Myanmar's ocean-based blue economy including marine tourism, maritime trade, deep seaport services, offshore oil and natural gas production and marine fishing, to prevent illegal trespassing in the seas, and to maintain the rule of law at sea.[2] The Myanmar Coast Guard has a constabulary role in the protection of maritime interests, provides search and rescue for victims in the sea, and works toward sea environmental conservation, monitoring a wide range of activities underwater and above water in Myanmar's water territory.[3]

  1. ^ "Myanmar inaugurates coastguard service with initial fleet of four vessels". Janes.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  2. ^ "မြန်မာကမ်းခြေစောင့်တပ်ဖွဲ့ ဖွဲ့စည်းနိုင်ရန် စတင် လေ့လာ ဆောင်ရွက်နေ". Frontier Myanmar (in Burmese). 5 September 2018. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  3. ^ "The Unique Role of The Myanmar Coast Guard". The Global New Light of Myanmar. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2021.