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The county lines conundrum: Young criminal, child victim or both?

With county lines drug trafficking increasingly recognised across the UK, police still face the conundrum of whether young people involved in these crimes should be treated as offenders, victims, or both; Policing Insight’s James Sweetland reports on a session from the recent 24hr Conference on Global Organized Crime in which Trilateral Research’s Jana-Isabelle Dilger presented guidance for frontline officers making these tough calls.

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