Key Philippine Military and Insurgency-Related Events: LOOK: Japan coast guard aircraft conduct exercise in Philippines

Saturday, May 13, 2017

LOOK: Japan coast guard aircraft conduct exercise in Philippines

From Update Philippines (May 14): LOOK: Japan coast guard aircraft conduct exercise in Philippines

PCG photo

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Japan Coast Guard (JCG) and Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia-Information Sharing Center (ReCAAP-ISC) have conducted a communications and surveillance exercise on May 13.

JCG’s airborne plane Falcon 900 (JA 8571) with PCG, JCG, ReCAAP-ISC onboard serves as observers.

“Falcon 900 together with PCG’s deployed patrol vessels, BRP Romblon (SARV-3503) and BRP Malapascua (MRRV 4403) and PCG manned-Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) 3007 of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) were deployed for the said simulation of a cargo vessel under piracy attack between Jolo Island and Tawi-Tawi upon receipt of piracy incident from ReCAAP-ISC,” PCG said.

“The exercise helped us build good working relationship and interoperability between the PCG, JCG and ReCAAP which is based in Singapore. We have had lots of piracy exercises with the Japan Coast Guard. However, it is mostly in the conduct of anti-piracy exercise,” Commander of Maritime Security and Law Enforcement Commodore Leopoldo V. Laroya.

“We utilize a plane from the JCG for the conduct of communications exercise in order to present the capability to respond and share information quickly about piracy,” he added.