Special Branch is a label customarily used to identify units responsible for matters of national security and intelligence in British, Commonwealth, Irish, and other police forces. A Special Branch un
Crest of the Royal Bahamas Police Force
Forward Intelligence Teams are two or more police officers who are deployed by UK police forces to gather intelligence on the ground and in some circumstances, to disrupt activists and deter anti-soci
Special Branch
…those in county and city police forces have since been merged or converted into inter-force regional counter terrorism units and organised crime units. Forward intelligence team Special Investigation Branch (military police, the equivalent of the CID…
Forward Intelligence Team outside the US embassy, London
A Forward Intelligence Team officer
A FIT photographer and protesters at the Camp for Climate Action, Heathrow 2007
A "spotter card" used by FITs at protests and political meetings. This was dropped by a police officer at the DSEi arms fair in 2005 and later published by The Guardian.