Overview
- Regional totals reported include £67,329 in cash seized, about 52kg of cannabis including 868 plants, and the recovery of three guns and five imitation firearms.
- Wiltshire executed 17 warrants resulting in 45 arrests, with four suspects charged, one convicted, five closure orders granted, and seizures of around £60,000 in drugs, £11,930 in cash, and 11 weapons.
- Dorset carried out 11 warrants leading to 22 arrests, safeguarding 13 people including six children, and seizing £18,790, 560 cannabis plants, class A drugs, a stun gun, a taser, knives, and an imitation firearm.
- Gloucestershire reported 10 arrests with three charges, £9,754 in cash seized, and one gun recovered, while Devon and Cornwall recorded 27 arrests, £17,465 seized, 308 cannabis plants, and multiple weapons recovered.
- Tactics spanned arrest and search warrants, vehicle stops and drone deployments, paired with safeguarding of 48 vulnerable people including five children, school inputs on county lines, and targeted TikTok and Snapchat awareness ads.