Drugsland: Going Country

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Andy Llewellyn

Blain Bishop

Peter Brown

Neil Chadburn

Ian Clenahan

Tony Cross

Ben Davis

Chris Friendship

Jane Zurakowski

Hugo Pettitt

Sacha Mirzoeff

Simon Ford

Simon Davies

Barnaby Taylor

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BBC Three - Drugsland: Going Country

Police tackle a county lines gang trying to take over the supply of drugs in rural Devon.

A gritty, multi-perspective documentary about county lines drug dealing in rural Devon. Police tackle a criminal gang taking over local drug supply using violence and intimidation.

A gritty, multi-perspective look at the impact of illegal drugs in a rural community. Rather than focusing on big city drug dealing, this film tells the story of how a gang from the city establish a ‘county line’ and muscle their way into the drug economy of rural Devon. They take control of the supply of drugs by intimidating local dealers and enforcing their authority throughout the underworld. The gang deploys extremes of violence rarely seen before on the country lanes and small town streets of rural England.

A stabbing on the side of a remote A-road in Devon kick-starts a police investigation that leads to the exposure of a huge drug-dealing network with links to Liverpool. With full access to the police investigation, the film gives an in-depth and up-close inside view of the complexity and difficulty of taking down an entire county lines gang - from the bottom right to the top.

We get multiple perspectives on how a county lines gang actually works. A more traditional local drug dealer finds his own illicit trade has been adversely affected. He is surprised to find himself agreeing with police that he wants the county lines gang out of the country. The new gangs have the upper hand because they are bigger and more willing to use fear and violence to get their way as they set out to flood the market with cheaper drugs. Besides the police and local dealers, it is the users and addicts who find themselves caught in the criminal network, and we hear from them, too.

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