 In January 2011, it was reported that Mark Kennedy of the Metropolitan Police was one of the first officers to work as an undercover infiltrator for the NPOIU, and had spent seven years within the environmental protest movement.Kennedy later confirmed in an exclusive interview with the "Mail on Sunday," arranged through his PR agent Max Clifford, that he as Simon Jenkins suspected suffered a version of "Stockholm syndrome".In November 2010 it was announced that the three ACPO units commanded by the National Coordinator for Domestic Extremism would be rebranded as the National Domestic Extremism Unit and brought under the control of the Metropolitan Police Business Group by mid-2011.