BTP in Snapchat campaign to deter boys from drug gangs

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British Transport Police in Snapchat campaign to deter boys from drug gangs

Det Supt Gareth Williams, BTP's County Lines Taskforce lead, said: "It's not uncommon for my dedicated teams to encounter children on the railway who are being exploited to traffic drugs.

"The youngest person we've found being exploited in county lines activity was a boy aged 13 - in that case the couple controlling him to courier drugs were jailed for over 12 years." Dealers offer cash, mobile phones, vapes and clothes in so-called "business opportunities" promoted on social media, BTP said.

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