Challenging and challenges of police responses to cuckooing

The term cuckooing has emerged in the last decade, alongside county lines in academic literature and policing (Spicer, 2021; Coomber and Moyle, 2018; NCA, 2017). Cuckooing describes the process by which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by another person for the purposes of crime, most often for drug dealing or storage but also for sex…