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Policing County LinesNew Tactics

Policing County Lines: New Tactics [Emanating out of the perceived novelty of County Lines, over the course of the fieldwork, various policing strategies and tactics were introduced in attempts to try and respond to it. These were devised and promoted at a national level following the increased presence of these groups in ‘unfamiliar’ areas and the more general burgeoning of this supply model and its associated harms across the UK. Throughout, I observed many of these responses as they were introduced and was able to document how they played out locally in affected areas. I was able to explore how they were viewed by officers, how they were (or were not) put into practice and analyse some of their outcomes. This chapter focuses on two particularly prominent ‘new’ tactics that were introduced and represented as being specifically bespoke to the issue of County Lines. These are the use of ‘Drug Dealing Telecommunication Restriction Order’ and the pursuit of modern slavery convictions. They are focused on here specifically due to their prominence nationally, but also how their emergence is related to police practice in the local areas where I undertook my fieldwork. Formulated and promoted at the national level, local officers had to interpret these tactics and decide if or how to use them. How they went about doing so provided valuable insight into the responses to County Lines and the nature of drug market policing more generally. In addition to the external communicative properties of these diverse forms of policing activity, I was also able to explore the symbolic processes these tactics went through within the police organisation itself.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-54192-7
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137 –158
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-54193-4_6
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[Emanating out of the perceived novelty of County Lines, over the course of the fieldwork, various policing strategies and tactics were introduced in attempts to try and respond to it. These were devised and promoted at a national level following the increased presence of these groups in ‘unfamiliar’ areas and the more general burgeoning of this supply model and its associated harms across the UK. Throughout, I observed many of these responses as they were introduced and was able to document how they played out locally in affected areas. I was able to explore how they were viewed by officers, how they were (or were not) put into practice and analyse some of their outcomes. This chapter focuses on two particularly prominent ‘new’ tactics that were introduced and represented as being specifically bespoke to the issue of County Lines. These are the use of ‘Drug Dealing Telecommunication Restriction Order’ and the pursuit of modern slavery convictions. They are focused on here specifically due to their prominence nationally, but also how their emergence is related to police practice in the local areas where I undertook my fieldwork. Formulated and promoted at the national level, local officers had to interpret these tactics and decide if or how to use them. How they went about doing so provided valuable insight into the responses to County Lines and the nature of drug market policing more generally. In addition to the external communicative properties of these diverse forms of policing activity, I was also able to explore the symbolic processes these tactics went through within the police organisation itself.]

Published: Oct 31, 2020

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