MUARA, Thursday 14 Disember 2012 – The Royal Brunei Navy (RBN) and the Marine Police, Royal Brunei Police Force has concluded the joint exercise code-named Exercise SEMBILANG 09/12 which was conducted from 10 to 14 December 2012. The closing ceremony for the exercise was held at the RBN HQ Lecture Theater.
Officiating the closing ceremony of the exercise was ACP Haji Abd Wahid bin Haji Yahya, Deputy Director Operations, Royal Brunei Police Force. Also present at the ceremony was Col (L) Pg Norazmi bin Pg Haji Muhammad, Deputy Commander of RBN, Acting Supt YAM Pg Anak Haji Mohd Saifullah bin Pg Indera Setia Diraja Sahibul Karib Pg Anak Haji Idris, Staff Officer Grade 1, Operations Department, Royal Brunei Police Force, Lt Col (L) Pg Omaralli bin PJI Pg Haji Mokhtar Puteh, Squadron Commander RBN, including officers and men participating in the exercise.
RBN hosted the 5-day exercise which consists of a harbour and sea phase and was aimed at increasing interoperability and cooperation between the two security agencies. The harbour phase included briefings presented by different agencies on respective subjects from the National Maritime Coordination Centre, Attorney Generals Office, Fire and Rescue Department, Fisheries Department, Marine Department, Military Legal Unit, CBRE and Immigration and Customs Department.
The harbour phase also included an operations brief and discussion, boarding classes and pre-sail brief. The sea phase began on 13 December 2012, with 3 ships from RBN and 8 ships from POLMAR. Exercises conducted during the sea phase were search and rescue, sea and river blockade, boarding exercises and casualty evacuation exercise supported by the RBAirF.
A sports interaction activity was also conducted to further enhance relations between the two agencies by contesting for the SEMBILANG Cup. This water sport activity was held at the RBN Swimming Pool and was won by the RBN. The exercise this year was conducted with success as per the years before and the changes and improvements suggested from last years’ exercise were instilled this year with relative ease. Both agencies gained a lot from each other through knowledge exchange and conferences.
MUARA, Khamis 14 Disember 2012
– Tentera Laut Diraja Brunei (TLDB) dan Polis Marin, Polis Diraja
Brunei (POLMAR) telah bergabung dalam menjalani Eksesais SEMBILANG 09/12
yang diadakan selama lima hari, bermula pada 10 hingga 14 Disember
2012.
Hadir
bagi merasmikan penutupan eksesais ini ialah ACP Haji Abd Wahid bin
Haji Yahya, Timbalan Pengarah Gerakan, Pasukan Polis Diraja Brunei
(PDB). Turut hadir semasa upacara tersebut ialah Kol (L) Pg Norazmi bin
Pg Haji Muhammad, Timbalan Pemerintah TLDB, Pemangku Supt YAM Pg Anak
Haji Mohd Saifullah bin Pg Indera Setia Diraja Sahibul Karib Pg Anak
Haji Idris, Pegawai Turus 1, Jabatan Gerakan PDB, Lt Kol (L) Pg Omaralli
bin PJI Pg Haji Mokhtar Puteh, Pemerintah Skuadron TLDB, berserta
pegawai-pegawai dan anggota yang terlibat dalam eksesais tersebut.
Bagi
eksesais ini, Mej (L) Shariman bin Abu Bakar dilantik sebagai Commander
Task Group dan dibantu oleh ASP Haji Mahran bin Haji Ahmad sebagai
Deputy Command Task Group. Objektif eksesais adalah bertujuan untuk
meningkatkan interoperabiliti dan kerjasama diantara kedua belah pihak.
Eksesais
dibahagikan kepada dua fasa iaitu fasa pangkalan dan fasa laut. Bagi
fasa pangkalan, sesi takllimat telah diberikan oleh beberapa
agensi-agensi NBD seperti Pusat Penyelarasan Maritim Kebangsaan, Pejabat
Peguam Negara, Paukan Bomba dan Penyelamat, Jabatan Perikanan, Jabatan
Laut dan Jabatan Kastam dan Eksais Diraja, untuk menambah ilmu
pengetahuan tentang perkara dan isu semasa. Juga dilaksanakan semasa
fasa pangkalan ialah teori latihan menggeledah, taklimat operasi dan
taklimat sebelum belayar. Fasa laut telah dijalankan dengan selamat dan
latihan – latihan yang dijalankan adalah latihan sekatan laut dan
sungai, latihan menggeledah dan latihan casualty evacuation yang dibantu
oleh aset TUDB.
Interaksi
sukan juga diadakan untuk mengeratkan lagi persahabatan diantara
kedua-dua pihak bagi merebutkan piala SEMBILANG. Acara sukan air ini
telah diadakan di Kolam Renang TLDB yangmana telah dimenangi oleh
TLDB. Eksesais pada tahun ini secara keseluruhannya telah dijalankan
dengan baik dan sempurna dengan mengaplikasikan cadangan-cadangan
daripada eksesais SEMBILANG yang sebelumnya. Dengan eksesais ini, kedua
– dua buah agensi telah mendapat banyak pengalaman daripada eksesais
pada tahun ini.