Bedfordshire Police’s specialist guns and gangs unit has sized thousands of pounds worth of drugs and a 10-inch zombie knife in coordinated raids across Bedford and Luton.
Last week, officers executed a warrant at a property in the Biddenham area of Bedford, believed to be used as a drug factory.
During a search of the property, officers found more than £1,000 worth of Class A drugs, a number of phones and two blades including a 10-inch zombie knife.
Officers arrested five people at the location, two men in their 20s have since been remanded into custody charged with drug supply offences as well as assault of an emergency worker and violent disorder.
Detective Inspector Scott Fowler, leading the specialist unit, said: “Time and time again we have seen the devastating links between drugs, serious violence and exploitation and these recent results haven’t been short of these well-known hallmarks.
“When we say that we won’t let up on our efforts to tackle gangs and organised crime, this is why.
“In less than seven days we believe we have taken out one drugs line while severely disrupting three more and I would like to assure any drug dealer reading this that our efforts are far from over.
“Don’t be fooled into thinking we don’t know those who are wreaking havoc on our communities. We know who they are, we know what they’re doing and we’re never far off taking another drug line down.
“I would also appeal to the wider community, while we employ a number of tactics to identify and apprehend those involved in drug dealing, your reports are integral in these results too. If you have suspicions, concerns or evidence of somebody dealing drugs or being exploited by a drug dealer – I urge you to report it.”
Anyone with any information about drug dealing can report it via beds.police.uk/ro/report or by calling 101.
All this information is fed into police intelligence systems and helps officers build up a picture of serious and organised crime.
