Thousands of children are being used by criminal gangs as drug runners in a grooming scandal with echoes of Rotherham and Rochdale, it can be revealed.
Modern slavery laws are to be employed for the first time to tackle exploitation of the children, some as young as 12 and in care, as the scale of criminal activity becomes clear.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) believes that the “county lines” drug trade, in which urban gangs move Class A drugs and cash between inner-city hubs and out-of-town locations, is out of control. Officers have identified more than 700 of the operations, which are named after the telephone lines used by gangs to control drug markets around the country.
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Looks like another abstract piece by the Times.
Looking for bigger stories elsewhere, and the biggest story is in London.
Reading the following document, even if every Borough of London is similar to the size of Rotherham, the number of victims is on larger scale.
Gangs, operating in schools, 50% of abuse is peer on peer!
Must be them proverbials all over again.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/mopac_lcpf_co-commissioning_workshop_cse_july_2017.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwi8zK7Eg9_XAhXFmBoKHWbOAowQFgglMAA&usg=AOvVaw3g0r6LEBobkZDDBAUMtjOR
Come on Andrew Norfolk.
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Dear Mr Hotspot:
1. Your link would have more usably been to: https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/mopac_lcpf_co-commissioning_workshop_cse_july_2017.pdf
The World Wide Wide is great – why not try and learn how to use it!
2. The Times story is valid and backed up by the NCA
3, Your link is to a rather complex set of stats of London – it is interesting, but only to those of us who know London really well, or have a particular interest in the city – it has little relevance to the far smaller cities and towns of the UK,
One could almost say that London is another country.
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1. Sorry.
2. The Times does back it up by the NCA, probably the inclusion of 700 identified gangs in the UK too, the link I have sent is inclusive of the ‘County lines’ theme. The acknowledgement of ‘county lines’, has been on public record by the NCA for a number of years.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/620-NCA-Intelligence-Assessment-County-Lines-Gangs-and-Safeguarding/file&ved=0ahUKEwj4jcuZ49_XAhUQK1AKHai4DlAQFgg3MAI&usg=AOvVaw32oGGGZJvKEzXUMlUmnI9_
The London ‘statistical information’, is inclusive of ‘county lines’ theme.
Abstract, ‘with echoes of Rotherham and Rochdale, it can be revealed’.
Is the Times report, eluding to to a ‘proverbial’ model or hitting on another subject matter which seems to be reflective of gleaned material.
3. The information held within the prescribed report maybe abstract to the demographics of the rest of the country, and also be noted that the representation of the said data is not applicable to the the rest of the UK (eg, peer on peer, rest of the UK 25/33%, London 50%). Wouldn’t any of this constitute a closer look at London, as of, as many children or greater numbers of children are in the grip of organised crime.
Number of people within the Rotherham area, around 250,000.
Each of the Boroughs of London are on the whole smaller, or about the same size as Rotherham.
CSE victims per year within the Boroughs of London?
Boroughs individually, per year CSE victims, more than Rotherham.
Collectively, per year, more than twice that of Rotherhams 16 year, industrial scale.
https://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-greaterlondon.php
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Hotspot , sorry I’ve only just come across your response above.
I’ll study it and get back to you tomorrow.
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