Information ``black hole' on Britain's drug gangs

February 24, 2002 8:08pm

Source: The Independent, February 25, 2002

Jason Bennetto Crime Correspondent

MOST OF Britain's top heroin and cocaine traffickers operate with impunity because of a "black hole" in information about them, an intelligence assessment has found.

The police, customs, MI5 and MI6 know nothing about 60 per cent of the country's heroin smugglers, the study discovered. The findings, details of which have been seen by The Independent, have led to a change of strategy against traffickers in class-A narcotics.

Customs and Excise officers, backed by M16 and MI5 agents, are now concentrating on foreign drug sources and supply routes rather than traffickers in the United Kingdom.

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