Military of Samoa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Samoa has no formal defense structure or regular armed forces; informal defense ties exist with New Zealand, which is required to consider any Samoan request for assistance under the 1962 Treaty of Friendship.

The Samoa Police Department operates the Pacific-class patrol boat Nafanua. It was provided to Samoa by the Australian Government as part of the Pacific Patrol Boat Program. Samoa took delivery in March 1988. It underwent a $T5.5 million refit in Australia in December 2004. Between 1988 and 2004, the Nafanua sailed a total of 118,000 nautical miles (219,000 km), performed over 12,000 hours of fisheries patrol and has been involved in the search and rescue of over 400 people.