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Norfolk dog owners have welcomed a new government taskforce which has pet thieves in its cross hairs, following a significant rise in thefts during lockdown.

Pet theft taskforce launched to tackle ‘distressing’ rise in crime Sam Hancock © Provided by The Independent The government has officially launched a pet theft taskforce to investigate the rise in dognapping since lockdown first began last March. It comes after research from Direct Line Pet Insurance in April revealed that reports of dog theft increased by a fifth in 2020, with an estimated 2,438 dogs reported stolen to police across the UK – up from 2,026 the year before and 1,774 in 2016. Various sales platforms reported spikes in puppy and kitten prices in the past...

Boris Johnson: The bearers of this epidemic were mainly young people – and the phenomenon was the county lines drug network Long before Covid we had a different type of plague in this country. It was a contagion that spread from the ports to the big cities, and then out along the road and the rail networks to sleepy county towns and coastal communities. The bearers of this epidemic were mainly young people – and the phenomenon was the county lines drug network. Everywhere they have gone, the county lines drug gangs have brought misery – drugs-fuelled robbery, drugs-fuelled burglary, an...