121012-G-JL323-186 Shiprider announcement
Rear Adm. Keith Taylor (center, right), commander of the 13th Coast Guard District, and Assistant Commissioner Todd Shean (center, left), Royal Canadian Mounted Police, stand with U.S. Coast Guard and RCMP law enforcement officers that have been specially trained and designated to conduct cross-border maritime law enforcement operations, on the White Rock Pier in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada, Oct. 12, 2012. Taylor, Shean and other U.S. and Canadian government and law enforcement officials announced that the Vancouver/Blaine, Wash., area will be home to one of the first regularized locations of the integrated cross-border maritime law enforcement operations known as Shiprider. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class George Degener.

Thet there Mounty type fellah on the right be one big fellah!
Shiprider programme has been inplace many years now. In the Great Lakes region.