Designing out county lines

Home Office funding has given a dozen forces the resources to target County Lines activity in the last 12 months but the telecoms modus operandi of the network controllers has once again provided the key to achieving success.

A single cheap burn phone linked to the Line Holder of a London to Norfolk County Lines operation had been used to make 23,758 voice calls and text messages over slightly less than two months. That’s an average of 565 calls or texts per day....