Police carried out the early raid last month,with sniffer dogs and enforcers (Pictures: Zineb Lazraq/Metro)
Police have busted a suspected organised crime group in a string of synchronised dawn raids across London seizing drugs,cash and lethal weapons.
The raids,which took place last month,were at six addresses with more than 50 officers involved in the operation codenamed Ironhide.
It was part of a crackdown on so called ‘high harm’ suspects fuelling violence across the capital often linked to the drugs trade.
In the last year alone 900 guns and more than 1,700 weapons hsve been taken off the streets.
The murder rate has also dropped as the Met targets the groups and individuals bringing violence to communities across London. The figure is down 33 per cent from 2020 when there were 152.
The teams on the raids in Camden and Islington massed outside the front doors of the suspects before daylight shouting for those inside to open the door and comply to their orders.
If they failed territorial support group officers used an ‘enforcer’ (a metal battering ram) to enter.
Police are seen outside of the property moments after the raid took place (Pictures: Zineb Lazraq/Metro)
The front door of one of the properties is seen bashed in after the ‘enforcer’ was used (Pictures: Zineb Lazraq/Metro)
Armed with warrants they searched the properties and have charged four people,three of them teenagers with drugs offences.
Among those detained on a raid attended by Metro was an alleged senior figure running a lucrative drug dealing gang.
Cash,jewellery including a Rolex watch and a pair of Gucci trainers were among the items seized.
At other addresses,swords,machetes and a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire were among the weapons found along with ammunition. Class A drugs were also discovered as well as a stolen Alfa Romeo.
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