The National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) is a command of the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

National Crime Agency The National Crime Agency (NCA) is a national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom. It is the UK's lead agency against organised crime; human, weapon and drug trafficking; cybercrime; and economic crime that goes across regional and in ...

. With the creation of the National Crime Agency in 2013, the unit was formed following the merge of the

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's cyber division with the Police Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU) of the

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, and is one of four current commands which look at the growing use of cyber crime and ways to identify it. The current head of the NCCU is Dr Jamie Saunders, formally of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), where from January 2012, he was director of international cyber policy.

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