10 U.S.C. § 379 : US Code - Section 379: Assignment of Coast Guard personnel to naval vessels for law enforcement purposes

Search 10 U.S.C. § 379 : US Code - Section 379: Assignment of Coast Guard personnel to naval vessels for law enforcement purposes

(a) The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland
Security shall provide that there be assigned on board every
appropriate surface naval vessel at sea in a drug-interdiction area
members of the Coast Guard who are trained in law enforcement and
have powers of the Coast Guard under title 14, including the power
to make arrests and to carry out searches and seizures.
(b) Members of the Coast Guard assigned to duty on board naval
vessels under this section shall perform such law enforcement
functions (including drug-interdiction functions) -
(1) as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the
Secretary of Homeland Security; and
(2) as are otherwise within the jurisdiction of the Coast
Guard.
(c) No fewer than 500 active duty personnel of the Coast Guard
shall be assigned each fiscal year to duty under this section.
However, if at any time the Secretary of Homeland Security, after
consultation with the Secretary of Defense, determines that there
are insufficient naval vessels available for purposes of this
section, such personnel may be assigned other duty involving
enforcement of laws listed in section 374(b)(4)(A) of this title.
(d) In this section, the term "drug-interdiction area" means an
area outside the land area of the United States (as defined in
section 374(b)(4)(B) of this title) in which the Secretary of
Defense (in consultation with the Attorney General) determines that
activities involving smuggling of drugs into the United States are
ongoing.