Police raid Canterbury address as part of rent-a-gun investigation
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Updated: 09:10, 03 March 2021
Ten people have been arrested after hundreds of police officers stormed 11 separate addresses as part of a rent-a-gun investigation.
The group - suspected to be members of a criminal gang - were apprehended after the warrants were carried out in Canterbury, London and Essex this morning.
Police have raided 11 properties as part of a rent-a-gun investigation. Picture: Metropolitan Police
In the early hours, firearms recovery dogs and more than 350 officers from the Metropolitan Police, Kent Police and Essex Police carried out 11 raids as part of a joint operation to arrest suspects involved in renting a firearm for use in revenge gang attacks.
09:34 EDT, 3 March 2021
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Armed police who were hunting a rent-a-gun gang who would rent guns to be used in revenge attacks have executed dawn raids on 11 addresses in London, Essex and Kent.
The warrants were carried out in the early hours of this morning by more than 350 police officers and four firearm recovery dogs.
Operation Wordwell was launched in September after a number of shootings and stabbings in Barking, East London, the Met said.
Pictured: More than 350 police officers were involved in 11 dawn raids executed across London, Essex and Kent this morning as part of operation targeting a criminal weapons gang