The National Drugs Intelligence Unit (NDIU) is a British police service providing law enforcement agencies with information and intelligence about criminal activity.
[1] Its functions as defined in statute are to "gather, store and analyse information in order to provide criminal intelligence".
[3] During 1985 a National coordinator was appointed by the Home office, this person was subsequently involved in the transition from the Central Drugs Intelligence Unite to the NDIU.
[4] The NDIU became the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) in 1992.
[5] The NCIS was created in April 1992 to deal with organized crime, at that time from concerns particularly about drug trafficking.