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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]
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 ...
A spokesperson for the charity Railway Children said: "Over the past decade, the UK has seen an increase in county lines gangs using the rail network to exploit children into traļ¬cking drugs."
Britain’s biggest police force, the Metropolitan Police, has arrested more than 1,000 people linked to county lines gangs since November 2019.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 November 2024. Organised crime gangs Gang-related organised crime in the United Kingdom is concentrated around the cities of London, Manchester and Liverpool and regionally across the West Midlands region, south coast and northern England, according to the Serious Organised Crime Agency. With regard ...
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]
"Criminal gangs, often known as county line gangs, recruit and groom young people to transport and deliver drugs." Follow BBC Wiltshire on Facebook , X and Instagram . Send your story ideas to us ...
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]