The Co-ordination unit of the fight against terrorism (French: Unité de coordination de la lutte anti-terroriste, UCLAT) is a French organization consisting of representatives from all active branches of the National Police.
UCLAT coordinates the sharing of operational information from all relevant authorities and services involved in the fight against terrorism, including anti-terrorist judges and the prison administration.
UCLAT is directly attached to the Office of the Director General of Police.
Since 2007, UCLAT performs between 300 and 400 telephone tapping a week.
It has in the order of 80 staff.
External links
(fr) [1][permanent dead link] Renseignement et terrorisme sur ladocumentationfrancaise.fr (en) Intelligence and Terrorism [archive] on ladocumentationfrancaise.fr
(fr) [2][permanent dead link] L’antiterrorisme espionne aussi mails et textos, Le Figaro, 28 mai 2007 [archive] (en) The anti-terrorism spying also mails and text messages, Le Figaro, 28 May 2007 [archive]
(fr) [3][permanent dead link] La coordination entre les services - Site du SGDN [archive] (en) The coordination between the services - Site NWMO [archive]