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in SLCG Rohana, in Mirissa. Advanced Training Centre is dedicated to designing and providing
advanced training to newly joined personnel to SLCG.

The Coast Guard fleet was further expanded with the addition of a few vessels ranging from
Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) to small craft. SLCG received its first OPV (CG 60) from the Indian
Coast Guard (formerly ICG Varuna) and was commissioned as SLCGS Suraksha at the Port of
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Colombo on 21 October 2017. Subsequently, the Government of Japan donated two 30 meter
long steel hull Fast Patrol Vessels (FPV) under the project for Maritime Safety Capability
Improvement in Sri Lanka and commissioned as SLCGS Samudra Raksha and SLCGS
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Samaraksha, at the Port of Colombo on 29 August 2018. These ships are equipped with
equipment used for firefighting, oil spill management and law enforcement activities. The second
OPV of the SLCG was received from the SLN and was commissioned as the SLCGS Jayesagara
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at the Naval Dockyard, Trincomalee on 23 July 2022.

The Contemporary Sri Lanka Coast Guard
The SLCG persists in attending to evolving national imperatives, encompassing the rescue of
persons in distress, prevention of illicit and coercive maritime activities and promoting economic
well-being and environmental custodianship. While the Coast Guard delivers exemplary service
to the nation, the escalating demands of missions coupled with limited resource availability persist
as ongoing challenges, posing obstacles to the preparedness of the Service for its designated duties,
functions, and contingency operations. Although new assets provide the Coast Guard with
remarkable capability, it is imperative to ensure the comprehensive training, provisioning and
maintenance of the workforce and shore infrastructure essential for the operation and maintenance
of these assets. Investments of this nature are pivotal for enabling missions, guaranteeing present
operational success, and catalysing a transformative shift in the modus operandi of future
operations.

The budgetary request of the Coast Guard is concentrated on endeavours aimed at reinstating
service readiness by purposefully investing in technology, assets and support essential for fulfilling
extant requirements and addressing emerging mission demands, all while maintaining a resilient
and proficient workforce. It embodies consequential, risk-informed decisions that leverage scarce
resources to enhance operational results, rectify outstanding maintenance backlogs, attract and
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retain a skilled and diverse workforce and modernize infrastructure to counteract 21 century
threats. Therefore, the SLCG is in the process of charting its course to the future having the right
understanding of the country’s vision into a strategic way forward, broadening duties and functions
on the following scopes;

 Maritime Security and Law Enforcement
 Maritime Safety
 Marine environment protection
 International Cooperation

For the smooth function and easy administration of the SLCG, four Coast Guard regions (North,
East, South, West) have been established with the followings;

 SLCG Bases - 02
 SLCG Stations - 08
 SLCG Substations - 08
 Fishing Monitoring Points - 26
 Life Saving Posts - 16

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