As part of the task of reducing firearms criminality, the National Ballistics Intelligence Service has been created. The National Ballistics Intelligence Service mission is to implement an efficient system of work, based on best practice and supported by a complementary database, to meet the Operational and Business requirements for the UK Criminal Use of Firearms Strategy and Doctrine Development.

NABIS delivers a database providing, for the first time, a national database for all recovered firearms and ballistic material such as complete rounds of ammunition, shell cases and projectiles. The database also links those ballistics items to tactical intelligence recorded by the Police forces and other UK Law enforcement agencies.
The Service also delivers Police based Forensic capabilities to link firearms incidents.

Four regional facilities have been created to test fire, analyse and link firearms and materials to other incidents across the UK. These facilities provide fast time information on the submitted items but do not provide evidential products.

Evidential standard information and materials continue to be delivered by Forensic service providers, this firewall of intelligence and evidence has been created to ensure turn around times within the facilities are kept to a minimum. This allows Senior Investigating Officers to access quick time intelligence essential within an investigation. The facilities use the latest equipment and are at the fore front of firearms forensic technology.

The NABIS Intelligence Cell is tasked with developing, understanding and disseminating both the strategic and tactical intelligence associated with the information within the NABIS Database as well as other intelligence sources connected to fighting firearms criminality.