A pair who ran a sex trafficking ring from a King's Lynn flat and a Great Yarmouth drug dealer are just some of those who have been jailed in Norfolk this week.
They use electronic surveillance of the road and rail network in and out of the town to identify suspected dealers and their cars, and feed raw intelligence in real time to the fast-response Moonshot vehicle unit who can intercept criminals who may be transporting drugs or exploited children.
Detective Chief Inspector Sonia Humphreys, who runs Norfolk Police’s drugs squad, explained: “Moonshot is a mobile team. They’re in cars, on road networks, and they re receiving real-time intelligence with regards to criminals who use and exploit road networks to commit crime. It s a blend of intelligence from a variety of sources, obviously we can t reveal all our tactics.