The National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) is a police unit that supports the ‘protect and prepare’ strands of the government’s Counter Terrorism strategy.
They provide help, advice and guidance to government and industry to protect from terrorist threat:
- crowded places throughout the UK
- hazardous sites and dangerous substances
- the critical national infrastructure (working with the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)
- personal security
Further information about the Counter Terrorism Alliance can be found on the Protect UK website.