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A 2020 report for the Home Office by Dame Carol Black states that the county lines drug trade involved 27,000 young people in the UK. [14] [15] The majority of county lines come from the Metropolitan Police service area taking 15% of the market, followed by the West Midlands Police area at 9% and Merseyside at 7%. [16]
Britain’s biggest police force, the Metropolitan Police, has arrested more than 1,000 people linked to county lines gangs since November 2019. Britain’s biggest police force, the Metropolitan ...
Members of a county lines gang who "flooded" a North Yorkshire coastal town with illegal drugs have been jailed. Birmingham-based dealers, who operated under the name "Ghost", organised bringing ...
The gang has connections with other organised crime groups in London, and operates county lines drug networks. [3] [4] [1] [5] The gang is involved in criminal child exploitation and the grooming of young children. [6]
The practice is associated with county lines drug trafficking. It is also known to occur as part of mate crime, the act of befriending a person with the intent of exploiting them. [1] As of the 2010s, cuckooing was becoming an increasingly common problem in the South of England. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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County lines can mean: Borders between counties; County lines drug trafficking, the practice of trafficking drugs into rural areas and smaller towns in the United ...
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