XL Bully dogs, drugs and guns seized after criminals receive early wake up call from police
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGuns, cash and a huge amount of drugs were seized by police across Greater Manchester during a week-long 'county lines' crackdown.
The term county lines is used to describe the illegal transportation of drugs from one area to another, often across police and local authority boundaries.
The mobile phone number used to take drug orders is referred to as the 'county line'. Children are often exploited to run drugs, with the homes of vulnerable people also used to hide drugs and cash, known as cuckooing. READ MORE: From Windermere, via Wigan, to the cartels of Dubai - how detectives smashed international drugs ring Every police force in the UK joined in with and contributed to a week of raids carried out last week.
Nationally, eight XL bully dogs and more than 600 weapons including guns, nunchucks and knuckledusters were seized from gangs, with a total of 1,874 suspects arrested and 245 drug dealing phone lines closed down.
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