International cooperation
The UK police service, including both local forces and national units, works with international law enforcement organisations to ensure a coordinated response to domestic extremist activity that takes place overseas, as well as in the UK.
Through the use of existing partnership frameworks – including strategic and operational cooperation agreements – NETCU, along with the other UK national policing units, liaises with international law enforcement agencies to:
- coordinate investigations
- exchange information
- share intelligence, analysis and expertise.
A network of UK Counter-Terrorism and Extremism Liaison Officers (CTELOs) is based in national police headquarters throughout Europe. These officers also cooperate and exchange of data with their European counterparts to enhance and support police cooperation in preventing, investigating and prosecuting terrorist and extremist activity.
NETCU also liaises with law enforcement agencies in the United States, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which has the main responsibility for investigating domestic extremism in the US.
