More than 200 people have been arrested and drugs worth more than £1 million have been seized during a week-long operation against county lines gangs in London.
The Metropolitan Police said 222 people were arrested of which 105 were charged with a total of 223 offences between Feb. 27 and March 5.
They said that included 131 charges related to supplying Class A and B drugs.
A total of 177 vulnerable people were safeguarded during the operation.
The term “county lines” in the UK originally referred to urban drug dealers who supplied narcotics to small towns and rural counties, usually based around a single pay-as-you-go mobile phone number, known as the “line.”…