National Domestic Extremism Team

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National Domestic Extremism Team (NDET)
Alias:	none
Parent Units:	Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism and Allied Matters) via National Co-ordinator for Domestic Extremism
Sub-Units:	none
Targets:	Domestic Extremism
Dates:	ca.2005 to 2011

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).

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.

The unit came to public attention when it led the investigation into the letter bomber Miles Cooper and was asked to assist the investigation into the hacking of the Climate Research Unit at University of East Anglia. It also oversaw Operation Achillies under DCI Andy Robbins which investigated Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.

The Unit was led by an officer of the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. From January 2009 - January 2013, this was Andy Robbins, on secondment from Kent police.

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.