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The [[National Domestic Extremism Team]] (NDET) is a police unit reporting to the [[National Co-ordinator for Domestic Extremism]].<ref name="Evans">Rob Evans, Paul Lewis and Matthew Taylor, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/25/police-surveillance-protest-domestic-extremism How police rebranded lawful protest as 'domestic extremism'], guardian.co.uk, 25 October 2009.</ref>
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{{Police_Unit_sidebar|Series=Undercover Police Units|Name=National Domestic Extremism Team (NDET)|Alias=none|Parents=[[Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism and Allied Matters)]] via [[National Coordinator Domestic Extremism]]|SubUnits=none|Targets=[[Domestic Extremism]]|Dates=2004 to present}}
  
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It is one of the three  "domestic extremism" units working under the direction of Detective Chief Superintendent [[Adrian Tudway]]. [[NETCU]], [[NPOIU]] (of which the [[CIU]] is a section) and [[NDET]] are the three units answering to [[ACPO]]. As the "national co-ordinator for domestic extremism" he commands about 100 staff and has a budget of about £9m a year.<ref name="Hirsch"> Rob Evans, Matthew Taylor, Afua Hirsch and Paul Lewis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/13/mark-kennedy-undercover-police-acpo?intcmp=239 Rein in undercover police units, says former DPP] ''The Guardian'', 13/01/11, accessed 24/01/11</ref>
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'''This article is a stub. For a full account and references please visit the main page at [[National Domestic Extremism Unit]] and also [[National Domestic Extremism Unit (organisational history)]].'''
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==History==
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According to the Guardian, the team was set up in 2005, and consists of detectives who assist police forces across the UK:<ref name="Evans"/><ref name="Hirsch"/>
 
  
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::Initially, the team focused on animal rights activists, but has fanned out to look at any crimes "linked to single issue-type causes and campaigns", [[Anton Setchell|Setchell]] said.
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The National Domestic Extremism Team was the police unit created to support the work of the [[National Domestic Extremism Unit|National Coordinator for Domestic Extremism]] (NCDE), and as such answered to the [[Association of Chief Police Officers]]' [[Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism and Allied Matters)|Terrorism and Allied Matters committee]]. It emerged in 2005-2006 and was involved in a number of high profile investigations, including the letter-bomber Miles Cooper. For the most part its officers came on secondment from police forces.
  
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::The team draws on intelligence from the [[NPOIU]] database and, the Guardian has learned, is located on the seventh floor of 10 Victoria Street in central London, a building previously occupied by the [[Department of Trade and Industry]].<ref name="Evans"/>
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Initially it had an intelligence gathering role as well as an operational one. However, as the units were consolidated, it provide the investigative function as part of a tripartite structure under the NCDE – the other parts were provided by the [[National Public Order Intelligence Unit]] (intelligence) and [[[National Extremism Coordination Unit]] (preventative). Along with the NCDE it was based at ACPO's headquarters at 10 Victoria Place
  
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==Future of the NDET==
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In 2011 it and the other units were was formally merged to form National Domestic Extremism Unit (since renamed the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Unit), which then passed to the control of the [[Metropolitan Police Service]].
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: following reviews within ACPO TAM and a HMIC Value for Money Review, it was agreed by the ACPO TAM board to merge the three Domestic Extremism units into single national function under a lead force.<ref>NETCU website [http://www.netcu.org.uk/media/article.jsp?id=666&chkx=f01c90cfaf0f7717c6029b5aaec5e9c8 Media] 24/11/10, accessed 22/01/11</ref>
 
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The three "domestic-extremism" units in question are [[NPOIU]], [[NETCU]] and [[NDET]]. They currently answer to [[ACPO]].<ref name="Hirsch">Rob Evans, Matthew Taylor, Afua Hirsch and Paul Lewis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/13/mark-kennedy-undercover-police-acpo?intcmp=239 
 
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Rein in undercover police units, says former DPP] ''The Guardian'', 13/01/11, accessed 24/01/11</ref>
 
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The National Co-ordinator for Domestic Extremism, Detective Chief Superintendent [[Adrian Tudway]], is currently managing the merger said "The three domestic extremism units were set up at different times during a six year period, with the current economic climate and the need to maximise resources it makes sense to merge."
 
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An article in ''The Guardian'' on the three "domestic extremism" units working under the direction of Detective Chief Superintendent [[Adrian Tudway]] states that
 
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:concerns have been growing about the accountability and subject to agreement they will be taken over by the Met under a "lead force" agreement – the same way the Met has overall command of national counter-terrorism operations.<ref name="Hirsch"/>
 
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==Affiliations==
 
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*[[Association of Chief Police Officers]]
 
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*[[National Co-ordinator for Domestic Extremism]]
 
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*[[National Public Order Intelligence Unit]]
 
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*[[Confidential Intelligence Unit]]
 
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*[[National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit]]
 
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The National Domestic Extremism Team was the police unit created to support the work of the National Coordinator for Domestic Extremism (NCDE), and as such answered to the Association of Chief Police Officers' Terrorism and Allied Matters committee. It emerged in 2005-2006 and was involved in a number of high profile investigations, including the letter-bomber Miles Cooper. For the most part its officers came on secondment from police forces.

Initially it had an intelligence gathering role as well as an operational one. However, as the units were consolidated, it provide the investigative function as part of a tripartite structure under the NCDE – the other parts were provided by the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (intelligence) and [[[National Extremism Coordination Unit]] (preventative). Along with the NCDE it was based at ACPO's headquarters at 10 Victoria Place

In 2011 it and the other units were was formally merged to form National Domestic Extremism Unit (since renamed the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Unit), which then passed to the control of the Metropolitan Police Service.

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