Drugs: Organised Crime
Commons · Question 48665 · Tabled 28 Apr 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 1 May 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of (a) Operation Scorpion and (b) other initiatives in reducing drug trafficking and county lines activity in Devon and Cornwall.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 1 May 2025
Through the County Lines Programme, we will continue to target exploitative drug dealing gangs and break the organised crime groups behind the trade. To deliver our pledge to halve knife crime in the next decade it is crucial that we tackle the drug gangs...