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Core tasks

In the Netherlands approximately twenty organisations and consultative bodies are involved in combating terrorism. For many of them, this is just one of a broader range of tasks. The NCTV was appointed to coordinate their combined efforts in every area of counterterrorism in order to systematically improve the effectiveness of their cooperation. The NCTV’s core tasks are described below.

  • The NCTV collates, analyses and integrates the information provided by intelligence services, the scientific community, government and other sources so that integrated analyses, threat assessments and other knowledge products pertaining to terrorism and radicalisation can be generated and used as resources for developing policy.
  • The NCTV develops clear, cohesive and unambiguous counterterrorism policy, including and strategic and international policy.
  • The NCTV coordinates the collaborative efforts of the organisations involved in counterterrorism. This applies to both systematic and incidental cooperation.
  • The NCTV is responsible for managing the communication strategy, which includes providing information about terrorism to the public and the media.
  • The NCTV is responsible for maintaining, implementing and modernising the national surveillance and protection system.
  • The NCTV is responsible for the civil aviation security.
  • The NCTV monitors the civil aviation security.

Civil aviation security and the surveillance and protection system are not concerned exclusively with terrorist threats but also with other sources of danger such as violent demonstrators and confused individuals.

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