Kent police arrest 34 and get drugs off the streets in county line crackdown

The seizure is part of a national crackdown and found 220 thousand pounds in drugs, cash and weapons.  Kristin Hawthorne reports.

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00:0034 arrests and £120,000 worth of drugs were seized.

00:07This bodycam footage shows the moments Kent police carried out the final stages of a major

00:11drug crackdown operation.

00:20This location is linked to the supply of class A drugs in West Kent.

00:25In this corner you've got this, what's been used as a shoe rack, and in one of the shoes

00:31at the bottom, this particular shoe, located a quantity of cash sterling, which I'll leave

00:37there for a second, plus a large chain of some sort.

00:44Large amount of cash.

00:46Officers also seized more than £100,000 in cash, 14 weapons, 2 firearms and 16 mobile

00:53phones.

00:54So far, a total of 22 suspects have been charged with almost 70 separate offences.

01:00Throughout the week, Kent police also identified 10 vulnerable people, including two children,

01:04believed to have been exploited by criminal gangs.

01:07A total of around £37,000 in cash was also seized from two addresses that were searched

01:12in the Snodland area.

01:14In Margate, this vehicle was also searched, where 86 wraps of class A drugs were seized,

01:20along with a machete, three mobile phones and some cash.

01:32As part of this national crackdown, Kent police hope this operation will show their commitment

01:37to dismantling criminal gangs, as well as the violence they bring to the county.

01:42Kristen Hawthorne for KMTV.