'Scouse crime gangs think this Greater Manchester town is a soft touch'
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukPolice have vowed to crack down on organised crime gangs who see Wigan as an 'easy target'. In recent years gangs from Merseyside have established a foothold in the town, taking advantage of its location on the fringes of both Manchester and Liverpool.
Established gang figures in their late teens are being sent from Merseyside to set up county lines drug dealing operations in Wigan.
And they're recruiting local kids as young as 11 to sell and transport heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis knowing they're too young to be arrested.
Det Insp Patrick Wood said: "The location of Wigan means that there is this feeling that it's kind of quite quiet out here, that it's an outlier.
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