PET's Center for Terror Analysis (CTA) was established in October 2006 and became fully operational  on 1 January 2007. CTA's task is to conduct analyses and assessments of the threat of terrorism in relation to Denmark and  in so doing contribute to improving  the ability of Danish authorities  to prevent and investigate acts of  terrorism.

CTA comprises staff from the Danish  Defence Intelligence Service (FE),  the Danish Security and Intelligence  Service (PET), the Ministry of  Foreign Affairs of Denmark and the Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA), respectively. Staff are seconded to CTA on a rotation basis.

CTA’s analyses can be divided into three categories:

• Threat assessments in relation to specific individuals, events and threats, but also more general national threat assessments.
• Analyses of terrorist groups or threats abroad of importance for Denmark or, for example, tourist destinations abroad which Danes travel to.
• Analyses of tendencies in the terrorism field, such as how terrorism is financed and how individuals become involved in terrorist activity.

CTA’s analyses are used by the Government’s security organisation as a basis for decisions in connection with counter-terrorism. In this respect, principal recipients of the analyses are the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Defence and the Danish Emergency Management Agency.

However, the analyses are used also by, for example, the police in connection with tackling specific tasks relating to terrorism cases and in connection with street-level efforts to prevent terrorism.