The National Drugs Intelligence Unit(NDIU) is a British police service providing law enforcement agencies with information and intelligence about criminal activity.

Its functions as defined in statute are to "gather,store and analyse information in order to provide criminal intelligence".

The NDIU became the NCIS in 1992.
The NCIS

NCIS

NCIS or N.C.I.S. may refer to:* Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a United States law enforcement agency that investigates crimes in the U.S...

 was created in April of 1992 to deal with organized crime, at that time from concerns particularly about drug trafficking.

See also

• National Criminal Intelligence Service
  National Criminal Intelligence Service
  The National Criminal Intelligence Service was a United Kingdom policing agency set up as a separate body in April 1992 to centralise the gathering and distribution of intelligence on serious and organised criminal matters. NCIS was formed out of the National Drugs Intelligence Unit in the Home...
  
  
• Peter Clarke (police officer)
  Peter Clarke (police officer)
  Peter John Michael Clarke CVO OBE QPM is a retired senior police officer with London's Metropolitan Police most notably having served as a Deputy Assistant Commissioner with the Specialist Operations directorate, commanding the Counter Terrorism Command.-Early and personal life:Clarke holds a...
  
  
• National Drug Intelligence Bureau
• National Drug Intelligence Center
  National Drug Intelligence Center
  The U.S. National Drug Intelligence Center , established in 1993, is a component of the U.S. Department of Justice and a member of the Intelligence Community...
  
  

External links

• © UK Parliament retrieved 11:30 19/10/2011 (interview with Member of Parliament)
• governmental statement retrieved 11:43 19/10/2011 (information on the co-operation between British and European Drug Intelligence agency)