The penetration of the EncroChat phone network has continued to compromise crime groups rooted in the east of the city.
The French Gendarmerie developed a software that could bypass the encryption of the Dutch EncroChat network that was used by crime groups across Europe. On Merseyside police have made nearly 200 arrests and secured 95 convictions resulting in combined prison sentences of over 1,100 years.
Over the last year a number of well known criminals across Huyton, Croxteth and West Derby have been arrested and jailed as a direct result of the operation. The police penetration of the encrypted phone network has compromised a number of entrenched crime groups across the east of the city.
