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Authority
✓ -:- The government's legal power to act
Jurisdiction
✓ -:- The government's legal right to exercise authority over it's people, vessels, and
places
Jurisdiction triangle
✓ -:- Location, vessel/ flag, substantive law
Substantive law
✓ -:- One that prohibits certain action or requires affirmative conduct
Types of vessels
✓ -:- Recreational/private, commercial, noncommercial/ government owned, warship
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✓ -:- The Coast Guard shall enforce or assist in the enforcement of all applicable
federal laws on, under, and over the high seas and waters subject to the jurisdiction
of the United States.
SEAS II
✓ -:- Search, examine, arrest, seize, inquire, inspect
Use of force policy
✓ -:- Only that amount of force reasonably necessary under the circumstances may
be used. Excessive force may never be used.
Types of self defense
✓ -:- Individual, unit, national
Use of force continuum
✓ -:- Officer presence, verbal commands, control techniques, aggressive response
techniques, intermediate weapons, deadly force
Officer presence
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