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The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) considers all reports of significant breaches of maritime legislation. Our surveyors also inspect foreign and UK flag commercial and fishing vessels to make sure they comply with international maritime conventions or domestic merchant shipping legislation.

The enforcement action we can take is varied. Any sanction we carry out reflects the seriousness of the legislative breach.

MCA detains non-compliant vessels when appropriate and has a range of administrative sanctions to take before a decision is made to prosecute.

Details of prosecutions are updated on a regular basis.

All current detentions of UK and foreign flagged vessels are also registered on .

For details about your rights after a crime has been committed go to After a crime: your rights.

Work-related deaths protocol (Scotland)

This protocol has been developed through the representative bodies of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Association of Chief Police Officers (Scotland) (ACPOS), the British Transport Police (BTP), the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) to support joint working to investigate work-related deaths in Scotland, and where appropriate, to prosecute.

This protocol covers areas including the initial action, management of the investigation, decision making, disclosure of materials, special inquiries, the prosecution process, and fatal accident inquiries.