221 years in prison for drug dealers following huge county lines covert operation

A large-scale covert operation has achieved 72 convictions with 221 years of combined jail time and a number of County Lines completely decimated.
In recent years, drug dealing across this county had become so well-organised that typical methods of police investigation and surveillance had proven fruitless, and in time, detectives came to discover an underworld so enigmatic that drug addicts were vetted before they were able to gain access to the drugs they needed.
So Northamptonshire Police adapted, and at the beginning of 2019, a covert operation was launched in an effort to infiltrate both County Lines and local drug dealing gangs across Northamptonshire.