In recent years, gangs have become increasingly sophisticated in their methods of exploiting children, with class-A drugs ... to correctly identify county lines exploitation has resulted in ...

29 people were arrested and thousands of pounds' worth of class A drugs seized in Humberside as part of a national crackdown on County Lines drug dealing and child exploitation. Between Monday ...

Many of them will have thought they were too smart to be caught, but their involvement in county ... drugs and facilitating travel for a child for the purpose of exploitation. The group ran drugs ...

County Lines exploitation, where ruthless drug dealers manipulate children and vulnerable adults into moving drugs and money with coercion, intimidation, and violence, is tormenting communities.

Young women and teenage girls are increasingly being recruited into county line drug gangs ... officers to correctly identify county lines exploitation has resulted in more women failing to ...