The drug crime of the nation can be mentioned today as the center of Liverpool, where trade is ruled by ruthless local gangsters.
MailOnline can reveal that 359 drug -related crimes took place last year in the center of the city, the home of the Royal Albert Dock and Liverpool Central Station.
In addition to trapped in possession of illegal substances such as cannabis, the category of crime includes reports of street trading and even destroying enormous operations or exposing drug caves.
Our detailed analysis shows that this corresponds to a percentage of 323 drug-related crimes for every 1,000 people in that Liverpool-the highest grade throughout England and Wales.
Ranking list just in the back of the second is Brownnow Hill, a neighborhood next to the Liverpool city center and near both the University of Liverpool and the campuses of John Moore. It had a rate of 296 crimes per 1,000.
Full results of our probe, with 37,000-plus neighborhoods in England and Wales, are available below to view below on an interactive map.
Albanian gangs are now dominating the British drug market, with Kingpins from the Balkan state who have built direct relationships with Colombian cartels to flogen cheap cocaine on our streets.
But Liverpool's drug trafficking remains in the hands of local criminals, who have built strong ties with their communities and a frightening reputation that Albanian crooks might be looking for a quick win.
With the help of official crime data collected by police services, the cards break the crime figures by local neighborhoods-sided 'lower low superout pit areas' (LSOAS)-from around 1,000 to 2,000 people.
Each area is ranked by offenses per 1,000 population, so that you can see exactly where your neighborhood is on drug crime.
To find your area, select your local police from the drop -down list and Zoom where you want to search.
By tapping or floating the area on the map, you can also see the total number of registered drug crimes, as well as the crime density (reports per square miles).
There are no data available for Greater Manchester Police because the armed forces have not updated his Section of the National Crime database since July 2019.
Our cards also exclude crimes that have been committed on trains or train stations, as they are treated by the British transport police, instead of the local force.
The figures include all alleged crimes reported to the police and receive a crime number, regardless of whether the outcome of any investigation leads to an indictment or not.
For our analysis, neighborhoods are mentioned by the electoral department within individual authorities, which means that neighboring areas with the same name can appear, but have different statistics. That's because every department can have countless LSOAs.
For example, there are seven authorities of 'City Center South' in Liverpool, but the E01033756 district, as it is known in official data, is the hotspot for drug crimes.
There were more than 180,000 drug offenses 2023/24.
Almost 1,600 neighborhoods (four percent) have a drug crime percentage of more than 10 per 1,000 population.
Sian Banks, 25, and Eddie Burton, 23, were exposed this month as the shocking young pair behind a £ 20 million drug smuggling in Liverpool
Burton, who loves Banken, comes from Liverpool, pleaded to four charges for importing class A and B medication
Last year a legal legal document from the Home Office Albanian criminal gangs described as an 'acute threat' for the UK and 'very common for serious and organized crime' in Great -Britain – including different murders.
National Crime Agency (NCA) Investigation has shown that Albanian organized crime groups dominate the British £ 5 billion a year Cocaine market in the most important city and suburbs of the UK, excluding Merseyside.
In 2023, the NCA and 43 troops in England and Wales focused on 'West Balkan' gangs and seized nearly 200,000 cannabis plants worth a maximum of £ 130 million, £ 636,000 in cash, 26 kg of cocaine for a maximum of £ 1 million and 20 firearms.
However, the handle of local gangs in the trade in MerseSide drugs was demonstrated by the recent conviction of the young pair of Eddie Burton, 23, and Sian Banks, 25, for supervising a £ 20 million drug smuggling operation that brought hundreds of kilos of heroin, cocaine and ketamine to the VK.
The network of the couple was caught by officers of the National Crime Agency after the arrest of Burton by the Spanish police in Ibiza's Pacha Nightclub in August 2023.
Another gang, based on the Wirral, was sentenced to a combined 44 years in prison at the end of January for the use of the postal service of the Royal Mail to send £ 2.7 million to MDMA, Ecstasy, Cocaine, Magic Mushrooms, LSD and Ketamine in the entire country.
The group, which included Step-Siblingszussen Benjamin Crane, 35, and Abbey Crane, 24, have stored their medicines in a Birkenhead storage unit, before they sent orders from a post office in a local supermarket.
Liverpool Superintendent Tony Fairhurst told MailOnline that the police of Merseyside 'High Visibility is carrying out Patrols and other police activities to prevent the use of drugs, especially during the nightly economy' to scare drug criminality, but stated that the city has a reputation in the VK 'to do a reputation' by a reputation ' nocturnal flag status of 15 years.
He added: 'In the past 12 months we have also raised more CCTV and improved lighting in important areas to support our work in identifying and detecting crime.
'Like every city center, our lively nightlife will represent part of the drug -related incidents. Unfortunately, some people consider illegal drugs as a bit of fun during the weekend – but they have to realize that they help to finance serious organized crime and their use of violence, threats and intimidation to stay in business. We work in close collaboration with the National Crime Agency and the North West Regional Crime Unit to tackle and disrupt gangs involved in this crime …
“Given the huge number of people who come out here for a night out, incidents with drugs are relatively low and you have a much more chance of enjoying a safe and pleasant evening in Liverpool than to experience a witness or a crime.”
Professor Mathew Ashton, director of Health, the Liverpool city council added that the 'challenges we experience in Liverpool around drugs are complex and are similar to those with which other cities are confronted', but that the council worked hard to tackle drugharms.
He said that the city is launching a 'new drug and alcohol service for All-Age Community, which will build on the existing facility in April' to support those affected by drugs.
A gang, based on the Wirral, used Royal Mail to send £ 2.7 million MDMA. Depicted is Benjamin Crane, 35, and Bradley Gene Gray, 43
Abbey Crane, 24, was sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty after the trial, while Kylie Collins, 36, was handed over for six years
Outside Liverpool, Leicester Square and Covent Garden in Central London have the third highest percentage or 235 per 1,000 inhabitants.
They are followed by Halifax Town Center (a rate of 162) and Bradford City Center (161).
The police were warned last year that druglords active in the area 'criminalized' children by recruiting them to deliver bicycles drugs And do the 'last kilometer' of drug trafficking.
Also in the Top 20, Birmingham New Street, the center of Derby and the neighborhood of London with St Paul's Cathedral and Oxford Street, which MailOnline revealed last week as the burglary capital of the nation.
The drug trafficking in the capital of West Midlands is largely controlled by Pakistani heroin traders, who import life -destructive class A into the city.
Earlier this month, the organized expert in the field of crime and drug provision told Gary Carroll to MailOnline: 'In the court we are talking about Birmingham as a port for international shipments of heroin that arrive in the UK, where many of them arrive through Air Freight.
'The reason that Birmingham is such a beehive for the heroin trade is the strong family ties between people from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh and what they talk about as' at home', where the level of corruption among customs, border days is much higher than in the VK.
'The Pakistani have a strong grasp in the heroin television, so much even that Albanian organized crime groups do not tend to get involved in heroin, which is quite unique.
“That really emphasizes the chokehold that the Pakistani community has about heroin. If you go to Luton, Bradford and Huddersfield, you also see a strong element of heroin distribution. '
The police of West Midlands released dramatic video images of the moment that a heroin of the province and a crack cocaine -gang was arrested
Members of a gang who led a provincial lines of operation that earned £ 1.2 million a year to sell heroin and cocaine crackcocaine. One of their members, Anes Mahmood (bottom row, second from the left), was arrested at Birmingham Airport in September after he had fled to Pakistan
Arfan Mirza, a 42-year-old man from Birmingham, was convicted in 2023 for smuggling £ 22 million to heroin in boxes with plastic carrier bags by British airports.
Last year, the police of West Midlands struck one of the largest drug gangs of Great Britain, who earned £ 1.2 million a year.
A dozen gangsters were sentenced to more than 100 years between them for running the organized crime group, which sold huge amounts of heroin and crack cocaine.
Dramatic images show how the police fall into their homes in a series of day days, with the once almighty Kingpins that flourished while they are pulled out of their beds while they are still in their underwear. One of their members, Anes Mahmood, was arrested at Birmingham Airport in September after they had fled to Pakistan.
