Caravan holiday parks 'used by county lines drugs gangs'
Caravan parks in Lincolnshire are being used byJen Limb, who runs Littlehaven Park at Chapel St Leonards between Skegness and Mablethorpe, said holiday sites experience extra problems with crime as visitor numbers swell during the summer.
County lines is the term used to describe the practice of dealers transporting drugs from one area to another, often across police and local authority boundaries and from larger towns and cities to more rural areas. But Ms Limb said a decision last year to halve the number of police community support officers employed by Lincolnshire Police was the wrong one.
"This has led to a successful prosecution of offenders. We are continually reviewing intelligence around drug activity and take robust action where necessary.
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