Experts have warned MPs that the children's safeguarding system needs reform in order to support young people exploited by county lines drug dealing networks. At a Home Affairs select committee ...

SPACE (Stop & Prevent Adolescent Criminal Exploitation) is a self-funded, specialist support response to the phenomenon of ‘county lines’, which has trapped thousands of children and young adults into ...

A new research report has raised concerns that policing efforts targeting "county lines" drug operations in the U.K. rely on discriminatory assumptions about minority groups and contribute to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2015, police outside of London identified a pattern of more frequent arrests of young people and vulnerable adults, implicated ...

Knife-point robberies have plummeted by 15% since June last year in worst-affected areas, encouraging new data shows. Figures from the Home Office show more than 3,000 county lines networks have been ...

Hundreds of county lines operations have been smashed and scores of suspected drug dealers arrested during a nationwide week of intense police action. County Lines are organised criminal networks that ...

Nearly 80 people have been arrested across south Wales during an enhanced week of tackling drug-related crime. The South Wales Police operation came as part of a national "County Lines Intensification ...

Police targeted Wolverhampton railway station with others in Coventry and Birmingham Nine people have been arrested as police targeted West Midlands rail stations to tackle county lines drug ...

10:06, Fri, Jul 4, 2025 Updated: 10:15, Fri, Jul 4, 2025 Police have smashed 241 County Lines operations during a week of targeted action against organised drug gangs. The nationwide operation saw ...

One team alone have secured 1,000 years of imprisonment over the last seven years TREMBLING in the back of a police car, a terrified 15-year-old boy begs for help from the officer driving. He has just ...

This article presents a few key pieces of advice from Community Care Inform Children’s guide: ‘Responding to criminal exploitation and county lines’. The full guide explores how county lines operate, ...