Article 111 UNCLOS

UNCLOS Article 111 codifies the right of hot pursuit. A coastal state’s competent authorities may pursue a foreign ship onto the high seas when they have good reason to believe it has violated the state’s laws, provided the pursuit begins while the ship is within internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, or, for relevant violations, the EEZ, and only after a visual or auditory stop signal at a distance enabling it to be seen or heard. Pursuit must be continuous and ceases once the ship enters the territorial sea of its own or a third state.