Asian gangs operating on Teesside.

Asian gangs operating on Teesside. These use their connections in places such as Pakistan to access the Afghan heroin. It can be difficult for the police to gather intelligence and build up profiles because there are not many ethnic police officers in North police forces.“In small communities it’s easy for the criminals to work out who it is that is informing. This means they are less likely to be caught because people fear them.“All the gangs basically operate as businesses and their coming together in recent years is just like business networking . . . but with potentially deadly outcomes.”