What next?

The Government’s new crime strategy includes measures to tackle so-called “county lines” drug trading, under which urban gangs use children as young as 12 to traffic drugs in suburban or rural areas using dedicated mobile phones or “lines”.

The Met chief Cressida Dick is setting up a task force of 120 officers to focus on London’s most violent gang members, and individuals in known crime hotspots, reports The Daily Telegraph. The strategy – similar to that used against Al Capone by Chicago police in the 1920s – is to take these people off the street “for any crime”.