The attacks of 9/11 caused a focus on the ‘War Model’ of counter-terrorism, which has tended to overshadow the existing role of policing in counter-terrorism. The importance of this role is only now beginning to fully re-emerge. Policing continues to play a critical role in countering terrorism, particularly when this threat emerges from culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Such counter-terrorist policing fulfills a number of roles, such as Community Policing, Paramilitary Policing, Investigative Policing, Intelligence Policing, Protective Policing and Tactical Intervention Policing. All these roles are contingent on the engendering of community confidence, which allows police engagement with the community and the development of local community knowledge. Consequently, such local community knowledge, and the intelligence it generates, permeate the various roles in counter-terrorist policing, and are critical to its effectiveness and success.