The Sagar Prahari Bal (SPB), is a unit of the
Indian Navy
The Indian Navy (IN) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the Navy, maritime and Amphibious warfare, amphibious branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of the Naval Staff (India), Chief ...
, formed in March 2009, which is entrusted with the responsibility of patrolling India's coastal waters.
The force consists of 2,000 personnel and is equipped with 80
patrol boats. The force was constituted after the
Mumbai terror attacks and the main duty of the force is to guard against such terrorist attacks by patrolling the coastline and also to conduct search and rescue operations.
The soldiers are trained at
INS Shivaji, a naval training and engineering base, near
Lonavla.
The SPB maintains security at all major and minor ports in India and carries out round the clock patrolling and is also part of search and rescue operations in times of emergency.
Arms and Equipment
The arms and ammunition used by the Sagar Prahari Bal is manufactured by the
Indian Ordnance Factories functioning under the Ministry of Defence.
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AKM
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IWI Tavor TAR-21
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Glock
Glock (; stylized as GLOCK) is a brand of polymer- framed, short-recoil-operated, striker-fired, locked-breech semi-automatic pistols designed and produced by Austrian manufacturer Glock Ges.m.b.H.
The firearm entered Austrian military an ...
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Sig P226
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MP5
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INSAS
See also
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Solas Marine Fast Interceptor Boat
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Indian Navy
The Indian Navy (IN) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the Navy, maritime and Amphibious warfare, amphibious branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of the Naval Staff (India), Chief ...
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Military of India
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Indian Naval Academy
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Indian Coast Guard
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is a maritime law enforcement and search and rescue agency of India with jurisdiction over its territorial waters including its contiguous zone and Exclusive economic zone of India, exclusive economic zone. It was st ...
References
Indian Navy
Maritime security of India
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