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Success of Merseyside’s Medusa team highlights effectiveness of multi-channel approach to tackling county lines

The record-breaking success of Merseyside Police’s Project Medusa (the force’s long-term initiative tackling county lines drug dealing) reflects a multi-channel approach encompassing traditional and online investigations, social media monitoring, criminal behaviour orders, and prevention partnerships with local sports community youth organisations – an array of tactics that are also having an impact on other areas of crime, reports Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons.

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