Police have rescued more than 350 children from the clutches of county lines gangs in a major nationwide crackdown. The UK-wide crackdown coordinated by the National County Lines Coordination Centre is one of the biggest operations yet to dismantle the estimated 2,000 UK drug networks. Officers arrested 500 men and 86 women suspected of being involved in county lines drug dealing, which refers to the mobile phones used to buy and sell drugs. Police have rescued more than 350 children from the clutches of county lines gangs in a major nationwide crackdown. endsThe Mail has highlighted the UK's county lines cancer which enslaves 10,000 children.

Source: Daily Mail May 21, 2019 00:22 UTC