I've actually conducted an "airborne arrest procedure" many years ago whilst on exchange with the RAF and thought it may be of interest here.
The sortie was a fisheries protection patrol, the objective being to record the position, time, nationality, etc, of fishing trawlers conducting fishing within UK waters. The object of interest this particular day (sighted via gyro-stabilised bino's) was not listed on our onboard documentation as having a license to fish in UK waters.
Once positive identification was made, an RN jetfoil on Fishery duties was contacted to investigate, and pending the arrival of the jetfoil, we initiated an airborne arrest procedure.
Basically, this involves a series of passes alongside the ship/boat/trawler/whatever and short-life markers are laid. Very lights are fired and the ship is instructed to stop using the Aldis lamp with the morse letter L (the international signal to stop).
The ship held its position while we stayed in orbit at 1,000 feet at 3-4nm away. Once the RN arrived, they released us from the "arrest" and they took over.
Anyway, thought the basics of the procedure might be of interest on this thread - provided your resourced, and the vessel in question co-operates, it works
TFM