Inconsistent approaches to the policing of county lines drug distribution are leaving children and adults vulnerable to exploitation and harm, our research, the first national study of county lines policing across the UK, shows.

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Our postdoctoral researcher @chrisdevany.bsky.social is speaking at Westminster Insight’s Tackling County Lines conference today, sharing findings from our “County lines policing and vulnerability” project.

Read more about the project on our website: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/county-lines/

We’ve published a webpage of resources from our Q methods study of vulnerability. We hope these can assist other researchers in systematically exploring controversial subjects such as vulnerability.

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