The Repeblic of Sierra Leone Navy (RSLN) An armed of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces. The navy has about 500 personnel and operates several small patrol craft and barges. Their primary responsiblilities is to protect and safeguard the territorial integrity of Sierra Leone's sea. Sierra Leone naval officers are trained by british forces. They recieved financial support from Britain and China. On April 24, 2006, Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong held talks with Sierra Leone's Vice President Solomon Berewa in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Both sides exchanged views on further developing bilateral ties, as well as international and regional issues of common interest, and reached broad consensus. On September 25, 2007, Eight Guineans Naval officers arrested by Sierra Leone Navy for an act of piracy against locally-licensed fishermen inside Sierra Leonean waters. British-trained Sierra Leone naval officers interrupted the high-seas hold-up by armed men in two launches on Sunday, 18 nautical miles off the capital Freetown inside the country's 200-mile (320-km) economic exclusion zone.

One of the attacking speedboats escaped north towards Guinea, while the other was seized. The eight men arrested were found with AK-47 automatic rifles and bags of fish, including high-value snapper, taken off the Sierra Leone-licensed vessels.