Police had no dedicated team to scan Internet before mosque attacks Phil Pennington It took seven months for police to set up their first team for scanning the internet after the mosque attacks - but it was almost immediately in danger of being shut down. An internal report released under the Official Information Act (OIA) said this was despite the team already proving its worth "many times over" in countering violent extremists. The unit still does not have dedicated funding, despite a warning last July it risked being "turned off". This is revealed in 170 pages of OIA documents charting police intelligence shortcomings over the last decade, from pre-2011 extending through to mid-2020, and their attempts to overhaul the national system since 2018.