The UK’s law enforcement coordination body revealed that police made over 1,000 arrests and seized nearly 300 weapons during operations targeting county lines drug dealing last week.
The Home Office has reported more than 10,000 suspected cases of modern slavery in the UK last year, though the effects of lockdown mean that the figure could be even higher.
Criminal gangs have swept through so much of the educational system in England that staff at one-third of the country’s secondary schools believe gangs have groomed pupils, a report has found.
Criminal drug gangs in Britain have been dressing up children in key worker garb in order to avoid detection from the police during the national coronavirus lockdown.
London has a cocaine problem bigger than that of Europe’s next three largest cocaine-consuming cities combined, according to an analysis by King’s College London.
BBC analysis has revealed that London has 16 of the top 25 knife crime hot spots in England and Wales.
Statistics from British Transport Police (BTP) have revealed that crime has increased, with a shocking 53 per cent rise in drugs offences and the number of robberies increasing by one-third on the year before.
Spiralling knife, drugs, and gang crime in London has been leading many concerned Somali parents to send their teenage offspring, who grew up in Britain, away to Africa for their own safety.
Gun crime has hit a ten-year high in the English counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, and West Yorkshire, despite strict gun control laws.
The number of drug dealing ‘county lines’ have nearly tripled across the country in one year, while the networks are fueling the rise in London crime.
Around 120 vulnerable children are being monitored by police and social services in Swindon for fear they could get pulled into drug dealing, the youngest just four years old.
A senior Metropolitan Police officer has said that the weapons used in stabbings have got bigger, the injuries worse, and the attacks more “feral” in the past five years as London’s violent crime spree continues.
