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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

People smugglers targeting England’s south-west coastline, say police

A scuba diver steps off the back of a police boat
A scuba diver steps off a new crime-fighting boat launched by Devon and Cornwall police to tackle everything from immigration smugglers to drug runners. Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian

People smugglers are targeting the remote coves and small harbours of the far south-west of Britain to avoid clampdowns on their operations in the south-east, police have warned.

Police chiefs in Devon and Cornwall revealed they had intelligence that gangs were beginning to focus their efforts on the hundreds of miles of coastline in the region.

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