Mark Powell

, The government was requested to consider the restriction on pay-as-you-go to prevent cell phones, county lines, the drug gangs, the use.

Current rules, which allow people to buy the phones used anonymously by a drug dealer, the police watchdog for England and Wales.

He called up a Home Office evaluation of the "criminal misuse" of mobile phones.

The Home Office said it was the investment of £20m is out of the way county lines of activity.

The term "county lines" is used to describe gangs and organized criminal groups distribute drugs from a rule, the towns and cities involved, to organize, to smaller cities throughout the country with mobile phones with suppliers and customers.

Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Constabulary, fire and rescue services report on how the police respond to The Crime gangs were withdrawn, court orders, the locking of phones and numbers of the suspicion used for drug trafficking.

There was "little support" by the officers for this orders, the found inspectors, since the dealer will receive replacement numbers and mobile phones - sometimes called a "burner" - "quickly and anonymously".

In one case, the police officers, The Inspectors , said a drug gang has a new telephone number within one hour from the service provider on an order.

the Former detective Mark Powell , one of The Inspectors who worked on The Report , told reporters the "impression" of the officers, she said, was that the restrictions on the purchase of mobile phones anonymously "welcome".

This could include the people, the registration of personal data when purchasing a Mobile Phone or the SIM card replacement, The Report said

Mr Powell said: "an attack on the officials to protracted investigations, to prove, to try, the had a phone.

"But, of course, there is a broader discussion.

"We are not saying that anonymity should not be accessible to all, but we say it is a review of The Criminal abuse of mobile phones must. "

He added, this should look at whether the rules need to "win", but that's not the end of the pay-as-you-go".

The Most recent analysis suggests that there are More Than 2,000 individual deal-line-phone-numbers in the UK, coupled with approximately 1,000 county lines.

London, Birmingham and Liverpool are the main exporting areas, with other county lines, the said, a further 23 forces of The Inspectors .

Chief Inspector of constabulary Sir Thomas Winsor said: "the people hold their communication as a kind of concern, they should not be attacked in.

"This is the reason why we say that the role that should be taken into account. "

to block measures to disseminate the courts, the individual Mobile Phone numbers that were included in a law in the year 2015, when the county lines started.

It took to be implemented for a further two years for the forces, by the time the drugs had gangs reinforced their grip.

the effort required for the application for The work was hard, less than 50 have been granted since then, and the police found that, if the mobile numbers were abandoned, others were very quickly in place.

Being able to pin a specific phone number to an individual, would therefore be a great advantage for the detectives - and not only for the investigation of illicit drug trafficking.

Virtually any criminal conspiracy and a serious crime, which has been purchased includes the use of mobile phones or SIM cards anonymously.

But the ease and speed with which the pay-as-you-go phones can be bought, is a large business for the trade, and a big attraction for the customers, which is why the government is likely to proceed very carefully before the introduction of restrictions.

County lines gangs in the rule to force to move children and vulnerable adults, and save the drugs and money.

The Inspectors suggested that these could be excluded, the school, some of The Most vulnerable target.

you also have concerns about how those who are treated as vulnerable and had drawn, in the bands of the police.

A Home Office spokesman said: "We are investing £20m more disturbing county lines of the activity and the creation of The National County lines, coordination office, which so far resulted in More Than 2,500 arrests and the position of over 3,000 needy children and adults. "

Source of news: bbc.com