In early-mid 1999, the Department of Internal Security, by then an enormous, corrupt instrument to enforce the will of the Mysterious Somebody and Bracket Fungus, purchased a number of Daleks and brought them into Headquarters, enlisting the aid of the Bindweed in covering up the transaction; as the Bindweed was the new head of the Department of Finance, she was easily able to delete any records of their having come to HQ. Ensuring the Daleks' compliance by fitting portal devices to their suits, which were set to immediately portal them to the bottom of an ocean if they turned on their new masters, the DIS held onto them in secret as their reign of terror continued and tensions rose in HQ.