Extract from Lords motion
to consider the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016
(Consequential Provisions) Order 2017
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern
Ireland Office and Scotland Office (Lord Duncan of Springbank)
(Con):...Schedule 2 covers the effects of the 2016
Act on “reserved forces”, namely the Ministry of Defence Police,
the British Transport Police and the Civil Nuclear Constabulary.
Schedule 3 relates to the impact of the 2016 Act on immigration,
HMRC officers, designated customs officers and
the National Crime Agency. Schedule 4 covers
the application of the 2016 Act on persons subject to service law.
Schedule 5 makes provision regarding a person arrested in
connection with extradition proceedings...
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Extract from
Lords motion to consider the Drug Dealing Telecommunications
Restriction Orders Regulations 2017
The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Williams of
Trafford) (Con): My Lords, these regulations were laid
before Parliament on 12 October. The drug dealing
telecommunications restriction orders—DDTRO—respond to an
operational requirement of the police and the National Crime
Agency to support them in tackling the issue of “county lines”
drug dealing and its related violence and criminal exploitation.
As noble Lords probably know, “county lines” is the police term
for urban gangs supplying drugs to suburban areas and market and
coastal towns, using dedicated anonymous mobile phone lines. We
are particularly concerned about this form of drug dealing
because of the high-harm nature of this activity. County lines
gangs target and exploit children and vulnerable adults, who are
then at high risk of extreme physical and sexual violence, gang
recriminations and trafficking. In the National Crime Agency’s
latest threat assessment of county lines, three-quarters of
police forces in England and Wales reported exploitation of
vulnerable people in relation to county lines, including children
as young as 12...
(LD):...There was a
story in the Times this week on this very issue of county lines,
which reported:
“Thousands of children and teenagers are being used by criminal
gangs as drug runners ... The National Crime Agency ... believes that
the ‘county lines’ drug trade, in which urban gangs move Class A
drugs and cash between inner-city hubs and out-of-town locations,
is out of control”...
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