{"id":287074,"date":"2025-07-24T05:10:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287074\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:10:19","slug":"county-lines-operations-uncovered-by-police-during-west-midlands-operation-at-birmingham-and-wolverhampton-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287074\/","title":{"rendered":"County Lines operations uncovered by police during West Midlands operation at Birmingham and Wolverhampton stations"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a two day operation across the West Midlands by British Transport Police (BTP)<\/a> and West Midlands Police<\/a>, a County Line was identified, offenders were arrested, and a cuckooed premises was identified and two men within the property were safeguarded.<\/p>\n

The joint operation saw the taskforce flood stations with covert and uniformed officers, joined by BTP Dogs, as they doubled up on their efforts to dismantle County Lines.<\/p>\n

The BTP County Lines Taskforce is pivotal in intercepting the exploitation of people by County Lines and making safeguarding interventions to protect vulnerable people from the gangs.<\/p>\n

Officers deployed at stations in Coventry and Wolverhampton, and the next day in Birmingham city centre stations, conducted 33 stop and searches, made nine arrests, and five children and two adults were safe guarded and referred to specialist support services.<\/p>\n

Class A drugs with a street value of \u00a32,500 was seized alongside \u00a3400 of cash, two men were recalled to prison and three weapons were seized and removed from the transport network.<\/p>\n

Safeguarding partners also joined the operation, with The Railway Children and The Children\u2019s Society encouraging station staff, passengers and commuters to look closer to spot the signs of child exploitation and to report any concerns or incidents they witness.<\/p>\n

As well as arresting those who prey upon the vulnerable, seizing drugs, weapons and phones, specialist officers also gather intelligence into the organised crime groups responsible and target them, removing their ability to cause harm.<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent David Udomhiaye, Taskforce lead, said: \u201cThis week\u2019s activity to shut down County Lines and identify and safeguard those they exploit was another nail in the coffin for the gangs that hide behind the vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese operations, using resources including our passive drugs dogs, knife arch and covert officers, take place every day across the network, sometimes you\u2019ll spot us sometimes you won\u2019t but rest assured we\u2019re always there to take action.<\/p>\n

\u201cResults like these are testament to the expertise of the Taskforce and send a robust message to anyone involved in criminality that it\u2019s just a matter of time before they are caught and arrested.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking with our partners at West Midland Police means we can pool not just our considerable resources but also key intelligence which means we can strike at the very heart of County Lines gangs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe encourage anyone to report any signs of child exploitation or any concerns to us by discreetly texting 61016, any information can help lead to the capture of those responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a two day operation across the West Midlands by British Transport Police (BTP) and West Midlands Police,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15,4349],"class_list":{"0":"post-287074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wolverhampton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114906491962192533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}