Crack down on County Lines Drug Dealing

60 people have been arrested by Police in Cambridgeshire tackling drug dealers.

Officers carried out more than 30 dawn raids over recent weeks across Cambridge, Peterborough, Yaxley, Great Paxton, Burwell and Little Wilbraham.

33 of those arrested have been charged with 93 drug and human trafficking offences.

Several weapons including zombie knives, machetes, knuckle dusters and imitation firearms have also been seized.

Detective Inspector Andrew Gaunt-Warner from Cambridgeshire Constabulary's Intelligence and Specialist Crime Department, said: 

“Operation Hypernova 2 is the culmination and bringing together of months of intelligence led work to ultimately tackle county lines criminality head on and to leave a message to those exploiting the most vulnerable people in our communities that their actions will not be tolerated if they come to Cambridgeshire.

It saw teams of officers going through doors at dawn to ensure we capitalised on the early evidence, capturing the drugs, phones, money and assets we need to ensure these people are put behind bars for a lengthy period of time.

County lines dealers and organised crime groups use drugs as a vehicle to go about their business enterprise but what it really is, is the exploitation of children and vulnerable people in our communities.

Although these intensification weeks have come to an end, our work to gather intelligence continues daily and we will continue to knock on doors, make arrests and disrupt county lines drug dealing in Cambridgeshire. However, we can’t do this alone. We need the public, their intelligence and their concerns reported to us to continue to make our communities and indeed the county a hostile place for county lines”.

Police are asking residents to be their eyes and ears and to report any information online at www.cambs.police.uk or call them on 101.