Coast guard of Italy
Law enforcement agency
Corps of the Port Captaincies ? Coast Guard
Corpo delle Capitanerie di porto ? Guardia costiera
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Coat of arms of the Italian Coast Guard
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Logo of the Italian Coast Guard
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Motto
| Latin
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Omnia vincit animus
Patience and hard work will conquer all
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Formed
| July 20, 1865
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Employees
| 11,000
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Operations jurisdiction
| Italy
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Constituting instruments
| - Constitution of the "Coast Guard", 1989
- Royal Decree no. 2438 dated 20 July 1865
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Specialist jurisdiction
| - Coastal patrol, marine border protection, marine search and rescue.
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Headquarters
| Roma
, viale dell'Arte, 16
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Agency executive
| - Nicola Carlone
[2]
, Commandant
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Parent agency
| Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport
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Anniversary
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www
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The
Corps of the Port Captaincies ? Coast Guard
(
Corpo delle Capitanerie di porto ? Guardia costiera
) is the
coast guard
of
Italy
and is part of the
Italian Navy
under the control of the
Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport
. Its head office is in
Rome
.
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Missions
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The missions of the Italian Coast Guard include:
History
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The Italian Coast Guard is the operational
SAR
branch of the
Corpo delle Capitanerie di Porto
or
Corps of the Port Captaincies
, which was organized first by royal decree on 20 July 1865. It was reorganized as part of the
Regia Marina
of
Kingdom of Italy
in 1915-1945 (since 1946 as
Marina Militare
) and on 8 June 1989, redesignated as
Guardia costiera
.
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Coat of arms of the Naval Service of the Italian Coast Guard
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Coat of arms of the Air Service of the Italian Coast Guard
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Coat of arms of the Italian Coast Guard Headquarters
Structure and organization
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Structure
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The Corps of the Port Captaincies ? Coast Guard is structured as follows:
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MARICOGECAP
? Port Captaincies General Headquarters ?
Comando generale
, which functions of Italian Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (IMRCC)
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DIREZIOMARE
? Maritime Directorates ?
Direzioni marittime
, which are at the head of as many
Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre
Commands (MRSC)
- 55
COMPAMARE
? Maritime Departments / Port Captaincies ?
Compartimenti marittimi / Capitanerie di porto
- 51
CIRCOMARE
? Maritime District Offices ?
Uffici circondariali marittimi
- 126
LOCAMARE
? Local Maritime Offices ?
Uffici locali marittimi
- 61
DELEMARE
? Maritime Delegations or Beach Delegations ?
Delegazioni marittime
or
Delegazioni di spiaggia
Moreover, the following services are also part of the Corps:
The coast guard also has an air wing.
Tasks
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The Corps of the Port Captaincies ? Coast Guard is a Corps of the
Italian Navy
that has tasks and functions connected mostly to the civil use of the sea and with functional dependence of various ministries that avail themselves on their work: first of all the
Ministero dei trasporti
(Ministry for Transports) which has "inherited" in 1994, from the Ministry of the Merchant Navy, the major part of the functions connected to the use of the sea and the connected activities with the commercial and pleasure navigation an on whose budget weighs the costs for the running of the corps.
The principal tasks of the Corps activities are the following:
- Search and rescue at sea
(SAR) with the entire organization of co-ordination, control, detection and communications active for 24 hours a day requested by this activity;
- Safety of navigation
, with systematic investigative controls on the entire national mercantile, fishing and pleasure shipping, through the activity of
Port State Control
, also on the foreign mercantile shipping that calling at the national ports;
- Protection of the marine environment
, with functional dependence of the
Ministero dell'ambiente e della tutela del territorio
(Ministry for the Environment), using for this aim also resources (operations' centers, aeronaval crafts, naval traffic control systems) already used for tasks of rescue, safety of navigation, and maritime police;
- Control on maritime fishery
, with functional dependence on the
Ministero per le politiche argicole e forestali
(Ministry of Agriculture): at this end the general command is the responsible authority of the National Fishing Control Center and the Captaincies carry out the controls prescribed by the national and community norms on the entire fishing fleet;
- Peripheral administration of State functions in the matters of formation of the maritime personnel, of registration of the mercantile and fishing shipping, of pleasure shipping, and of the contentious for those maritime crimes that have been de-penalized;
- Maritime police
(namely technical-administrative maritime police), including the discipline of maritime navigation and the regulation of the events that are carried out in the maritime areas that fall under the
national sovereignty
, the control of the maritime traffic, the manoeuvre of the ships and the safety in the ports, inquiries on the maritime accidents, the control on the maritime State property, the testing and periodic inspections of coastal deposits and other hazardous installations.
Other functions are carried out for the Ministries of defence (
enrollment of the military personnel
), for Cultural Activities and Treasures (
underwater archaeology
), of internal affairs (
anti-illegal immigration
), of Justice and the department of civil protection, all having as a common denominator the sea and navigation. The broadness and the variety of activities carried out present the Corps of the Port Captaincies ? Coast Guard as an organism of reference for the maritime activities and make of them a true "sole counter" for the relations with the seafarers. The Corps is represented in a highly specialized structure, as well under the administrative profile as under the technical-operational one, for the completing of the Public functions that are carried out in the maritime spaces of national interest. These spaces include 155 000 km
2
of maritime waters,
internal
and
territorial
, which are in every respect part of the national territory, and other
350 000 km
2
of waters on which Italy has exclusive rights
(exploitation of the depths resources) or duties (rescue in sea and safeguard of the marine environment): a number of marine areas whose extension is almost the double of the entire national territory, which as it is known amounts to 301 000 km². Following the tendency that is affirming itself in
Europe
, the maritime authority ?
coast guard
must exercise an effective control in sea for the safeguard of human life, for the safety of navigation, for the correct going on of the economic activities (fishing and exploitation of the continental platform) and for the protection of the marine environment.
The Italian Marine Casualty Investigation Central Board (MCICB
Commissione centrale di indagine sui sinistri marittimi
, CCISM),
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a division of the Corps, investigates maritime accidents and incidents.
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It is not an independent maritime accident investigation unit.
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Insignia
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Like related coast guards around the world, the
Guardia Costiera
uses a "
racing stripe
" on its vessels. This marking is in the national colors, with a narrow green band, a narrow white spacing, and a broad red band. Inside the red band is a white circle with a black anchor. A racing stripe also serves as the logo of the
Guardia Costiera
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Rank insignia
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Flag officers
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Ammiraglio ispettore capo (CP) comandante generale
Commandant of the Italian Coast Guard
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Ammiraglio ispettore
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Contrammiraglio (CP)
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Senior officers
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Capitano di vascello (CP)
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Capitano di fregata (CP)
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Capitano di corvetta (CP)
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Junior officers
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Primo tenente di vascello (CP)
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Tenente di vascello (CP)
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Sottotenente di vascello (CP)
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Guardiamarina (CP)
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Aspirante guardiamarina (CP)
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Warrant officers
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Primo luogotenente (q.s.) Np.
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Luogotenente Np.
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Primo maresciallo Np.
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Capo di prima classe Np.
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Capo di seconda classe Np.
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Capo di terza classe Np.
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Chief petty officers
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Secondo capo scelto Np.
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Secondo capo Np.
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Sergente Np.
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Petty officers
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Sottocapo di prima classe scelto Np.
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Sottocapo di prima classe Np.
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Sottocapo di seconda classe Np.
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Sottocapo di terza classe Np.
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Seaman ratings
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Sottocapo Np.
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Comune di prima classe Np.
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Comune di seconda classe Np.
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See also
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References
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a
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DECRETO 27 dicembre 2006 - Adozione e tutela del logo della Guardia costiera
[DECREE December 27, 2006- Adoption and protection of the Coast Guard logo.]
(PDF)
(in Italian). Ministry of Transport. 27 December 2006.
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"Commandant of the Italian Coast Guard"
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guardiacosteria.gov.it
. Retrieved
2022-03-18
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"Contatti Comando Generale"
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guardiacosteria.gov.it
. Retrieved
2022-03-18
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"Organization's History"
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guardiacosteria.gov.it
. Retrieved
8 June
2020
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Decreto 8 giugno 1989 - Costituzione della "Guardia costiera"
[DECREE June 8, 1989 - Constitution of the "Coast Guard"] (in Italian). Ministry of Merchant Marine and Ministry of Defense. 8 June 1989.
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"
Italy’s Costa Concordia investigation report still not released
." (
Alternate location
,
Archive
)
Lloyd's List
. Friday 11 January 2013. Retrieved on 4 May 2013. "THE Italian Marine Casualty Investigation Central Board, the body charged with the technical investigation into the Costa Concordia casualty, has been roundly criticised for failing to produce a final report within 12 months of the incident. This highlights the difficulty that the..." and "In early 2012 the commission set out the regulatory framework for each European Union member state to create its own independent maritime accident investigation unit. However, Italy did not have such a unit, which left the responsibility in the case of Costa Concordia with the flag state."
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Circolare N. 23 Prot. 00058884/Sic.Nav./Sinistri del 08/08/2001
." (
Archive
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Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports
. Retrieved on 4 May 2013. "Comando Generale delle Capitanerie di Porto Commissione centrale di indagine sui sinistri marittimi Viale dell'Arte, 16 ? 00144 ROMA"
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"
Organizzazione
." Corps of the Port Captaincies ? Coast Guard. Retrieved on January 22, 2012. "Polizia marittima (cioe polizia tecnico-amministrativa marittima), comprendente la disciplina della navigazione marittima e la regolamentazione di eventi che si svolgono negli spazi marittimi soggetti alla sovranita nazionale, il controllo del traffico marittimo, la manovra delle navi e la sicurezza nei porti, le inchieste sui sinistri marittimi, il controllo del demanio marittimo, i collaudi e le ispezioni periodiche di depositi costieri e di altri impianti pericolosi."
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