They have teamed up with with the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (Titan) to hold an awareness event in Morecambe’s Festival market today.
Gangs sometimes use youngsters – as young as 10 – as drug runners or to hide substances, and often dealers use a dedicated mobile phone line to co-ordinate illegal drug dealing with customers in towns many miles away.
Andrew Webster, Temporary Detective Chief Superintendent, said: “Criminal gangs will exploit vulnerability in all of its forms to aid their activities. Intelligence from our communities is key to the police taking out the gangs responsible.”