If you see something that doesn’t feel right report it at gov.uk/ACT. In an emergency call 999.

Glossary

7-7 – Date of the London terrorist bombings – 7th July 2005
9-11 – The date of the Twin Towers and Pentagon attacks – 11th September 2001
ACPO TAM – The Association of Chief Police Officers – Terrorism and Allied Matters
BEM – British Empire Medal
BUF – British Union of Fascists
CBRN – Chemical Biological Radioactive Nuclear
CID – Criminal Investigation Department
CONTEST – The UK’s counter terrorism Strategy
CPGB – Communist Party of Great Britain
CPNI – Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure
CTC – Counter Terrorism Command
CTELOs – Counter Terrorism Extremism Liaison Officers
CTIUs – Counter Terrorism Intelligence Units
CTOC – Counter Terrorism Operations Centre
CTPHQ – Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters
CTP – Counter Terror Policing
CTUs – Counter Terrorism Units
DCI – Detective Chief Inspector
DFUZE – An international bombing incident program and database
DG – Director General
ERWT – Extreme Right Wing Terrorism

ETA – Euskadi Ta Askatasuna – Basque nationalist far left organisation
FCO – Foreign and Commonwealth Office
FEL – Forensics Explosive Lab
GC – George Cross
GM – George Medal
GCHQ – Government Communications Headquarters
IED – Improvised Explosive Device
ILOR – International Letter of Request
INLA – Irish National Liberation Army
IOPs – International Operations
IRA – Irish Republican Army
IRB – Irish Republican Brotherhood
IFS – Irish Free State
ISIL – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
JIC – Joint Intelligence Committee
JICTU – Joint International Counter Terrorism Unit
JTAC – Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre
KC – King’s Counsel
KBE – Knight of the most Excellent Order of the British Empire
LASIT – Left Anarchist or Single Issue Terrorism
MI5 – The Home Security Service
MI6 or SIS – Secret Intelligence Service
MLAT – Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty
NIRT – Northern Ireland Related Terrorism
OIRA – Official Irish Republican Army
OPCW – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
OSD – Olympic Security Directorate
PIRA – Provisional Irish Republican Army
QC – Queen’s Counsel
RAF – Royal Air Force
SO12 – Special Branch
SO15 – Counter Terrorism Policing (within the Met)
USSR – Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
UKBDC – UK Bomb Data Centre
WSPU – Women’s Social and Political Union