Hi, it's Manveen.
This year, the Home Office's County Lines programme has cracked down on more drug dealers than ever before.
So how have they done it?
And what are the problems, sometimes set out in the law itself,
that allow vulnerable victims to get caught up in the web of these gangs?
This week, we're rerunning our investigative series from earlier this year, On The Line.
In part three today, and if you haven't heard the episodes before this, do go back and have a listen.
We'll hear from the police about what needs to change in the law.
Here's my colleague, the Sunday Times Northern editor, David Collins.
From the Times and Sunday Times, this is the story.
It's October 2023. Police officers are patrolling the east of Leeds when they spot someone in a balaclava.
It's autumn and a bit cold, but this, this is suspicious.
Figure starts to run before they duck into a shop and remove the disguise,
only to be turfed out immediately because shop staff recognise him.
In fact, he's already been banned.
18-year-old Solomon Samrari is arrested.
Police find roughly 400 pounds of crack cocaine and heroin on him.
And a phone which they will later tell the court shows clear evidence of drug dealing.
He admits supplying Class A drugs and is sent to a young offenders institution.
Fast forward just over a year to January 2025, and once again...