A series of raids across Scotland last week highlighted the continuing focus of Merseyside's organised crime groups on the drugs market north of the border.
Scouse drug traffickers have a long-running association with Scotland, as both wholesalers providing Class A drugs to local gangs in Scottish cities, and as operators of 'County Line' grafts using vulnerable young people or local addicts to sell their drugs.
Last week officers from Merseyside Police teamed up with Police Scotland for raids in Peterhead, Aberdeen and in Knowsley. On Wednesday, November 2, Police Scotland raided an address in Peterhead where cocaine and heroin were recovered and a man and woman arrested.
