The National Crime Agency (NCA) reports that a week of law enforcement activity across the UK between 14 and 20 September targetting county lines drug networks resulted in:1,041 arrests; 1,551 vulnerable people being contacted by the police for safeguarding purposes; and the shutting down of 102 “deal line” devices, linked to phone numbers used to buy drugs. Separately, the Guardian reports that new tactics used by Norfolk Police and the Metropolitan Police Service have enabled them to drive the expansion of county lines drug dealing into reverse. The new tactics, escalated during the coronavirus crisis, include officers going after those controlling the lines from London via their pay-as-you-go mobile phones rather than chasing the runners sent to rural areas.