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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...