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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Will Durrant and Caspar Barnes

Drug gangs stormed by police with thousands of county lines shut down

More than 2,300 drug smuggling “deal lines” have been shut off in the past year, new figures from the Home Office have revealed.

Crime minister Sarah Jones welcomed the new data, which she said “speak for themselves”, but promised to go “further than ever to stop this evil trade”, adding that the authorities “will be relentless” in tackling Britain’s drug gangs.

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