Britain is riddled with hundreds of hard drug-dealing communication lines used by gangs that exploit vulnerable children and teenagers, the National Crime Agency has found.

Fresh analysis has revealed that dealers supplying heroin and crack cocaine use at least 720 so-called « county lines » in which urban gangs use a phone line to move their supply of class A drugs into county or coastal towns.

It’s a distribution model present across England and Wales, the NCA said, which often uses children as drug runners.

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