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<p>Intelligence and information on child criminal exploitation is collected at individual
force level and Merseyside Police will hold the relevant information. At a national
level, the National Crime Agency (NCA) is responsible for producing a national threat
assessment on county lines based on information provided by individual forces and
Regional Organised Crime Units and this includes child criminal exploitation. The
next national threat assessment by the NCA is due to be published very shortly.</p><p>
</p><p>We are taking firm action to tackle the issue of child criminal exploitation
and county lines this includes: publishing new guidance for practitioners on identifying
county lines and helping those being exploited; funding a pilot service for exploited
young people caught up in county lines drugs running; match-funding local reviews
to build resilience in areas where there are concerns about county lines; and we will
be shortly implementing new powers to enable the police to close down mobile phone
numbers that are being used to deal drugs as part of the county lines model.</p>
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