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In most forms of crime the victim (e.g. of a robbery) or the family in the case of a murder or disappearance, will tell the police, who start their investigation from there. In the case of drug trafficking, the victim, the user of the drugs, tries to conceal it, so the police have to start by identifying a gang member, usually by surveillance, and turning him into an informant. This may involve working upwards through several levels of dealers and distributors unless couriers can be spotted, leading direct to a big importer, as in the Richardson case (see pp. 159–61).
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Clutterbuck, R. (1995). Anti-Drug Enforcement in the UK. In: Drugs, Crime and Corruption. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376472_20
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