Armed police in 'high-risk' raid of suspected gun supply gang in London

Armed police have launched a major operation to tackle gun crime in the capital.
Several hundred officers raided a travellers' site in southeast London and arrested a number of suspects police believe have been involved in supplying firearms to criminal gangs.
Sky News was granted exclusive access to follow the operation, as police used flash-bang distraction devices to enter buildings.
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[@Krazy6ix]

700 armed and specialised officers in one raid, that's cool.

[@Worldvillagecooking]

Maybe he said several hundred

[@Ryan-ck2ei]

@Kernal Scott 2 🤡🤡

[@jamescoull7402]

They didn't find any guns . Enough said.

[@sagittariusmoon1043]

Several hundred doesn't mean 700 xx it just means more than a few hundred 😂 ,, and a lot more than a couple hundred and less than a dozen hundred x Sherlock

[@StoutProper]

Very expensive. Courtesy of the taxpayer. Bet it was in the run up to Christmas when they all fancied a nice bit of overtime

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Everything on a Traveller site is either stolen, illegal, untaxed, fraudulent, has no planning permission, is unpaid for or just wrong, the whole site exists in another universe where no laws apply.

[@treilly39]

Correct

[@patttate7784]

Bit like the children’s homes in the settled community then. We all know what is going on behind closed doors in the settled community. The well known saying is that there is a pedo on every street, so I believe ...

[@davidsmith1611]

What u think and actually facts are not 2 different things

[@32ewing]

sounds like the royals or British history theft and slavery z🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@dand6520]

CTSFO are such badasses, they train regularly with the SAS

[@OGRapture]

@Kernal Scott 2 Yet People trust civilians?

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Make the brews for the SAS.

[@Ryan-ck2ei]

@Kernal Scott 2 🤡🤡

[@Kikzki]

Kernal Scott 2 bro if u are looking for bad cops go to America most of them are but I don’t think u realise no one wants to become armed officers or police because they are risking there own life to help others

[@phayde.2288]

Kernal Scott 2 yeah sure they are 🤡🤡🤡

[@AlexSmith-od7qg]

Keep an eye out for my car they probably stole and some cat converters too!

[@pcoldlight5631]

Good to see action being taken against these 'people '.

[@TheAlllseeeingFish]

Proper policing. More of the same required. Keep it up!

[@ciaranjamal90]

😂😂😂 how is it proper policing when no arrests were made and no firearms were found looks like another job well done doesnt it

[@robertsteele2374]

@@ciaranjamal90 Not to mention they needed a whole platoon lmfao. Ye brave brave men we have in the police. wahahhaha

[@stevielowe2853]

@@robertsteele2374 obviously it's not about being brave . It's about being safe

[@campervan-john]

Plenty of other gangs that will fill the gap they leave in the market

[@therickpound]

Play hardball, public collection, 600 denier cotton towel, some creative white noise, dispose of, collate all info...next..only 1 thing in the way, minority liberal mindsets...

[@Andrewx4]

Now do the same with gangs full of "travelers" from Calais

[@ffews]

Ikr

[@Gatsu289]

as far as im aware, people from calais arent suppyling guns?

[@Easternlodown]

Nah I think refugees trying to access their legal right seek asylum in the UK probably are less of an issue than murders and gun violence boss x

[@lenskibob8894]

That seemed a very important chair at 1:52. That officer really wanted it then the other pulled rank and took it 😂

[@AB-gz9yb]

Lol

[@azmi0000]

that chair looks suspicious tbh

[@henryhilden9374]

Proper SAS training 😂🤣

[@Andrewx4]

Where were this lot when war memorials were being desecrated and statutes being torn down?

[@1NOIAM]

Is that a danger? They were probably training.

[@presidentofpeace2556]

Shut up moron

[@veyron2848]

It wouldn't trigger a response like this

[@biffalump]

What happened then Christ talk about half a story , was anyone arrested , any guns?

[@kenquid8091]

This is how they should round up the grooming gangs but we all know that will never happen. They do it nice and quiet then let them go again.

[@tobyford189]

This wont fix anything

[@GunsNScoop]

Understandable. Let's just let them get on with their day as usual...

[@user-ql5vj1di5h]

Its a start.

[@GunsNScoop]

So your solution is to just let crkminals accumulate because why tryand keep their numbers down?

[@tobyford189]

@@GunsNScoop my solution is removing the causes not the symptoms.

[@GunsNScoop]

Please elaborate

[@Scouser89Liverpool22]

They mentioned about doing a detailed search, normally if found anything like to show them off like prizes what they caught, suspect no guns were found?

[@markdance574]

Don’t worry despite very clear laws on illegal guns , these people won’t even get the minimum statutory prison terms that the law sets out on illegal fire arms . The UK and it’s laws area just a joke - the bail system is even more of a joke .

[@simiouno6125]

Youve got them guilty before anything planted, or found shall we say.

[@stevenartmann2642]

Surprised they managed to get to the site, the lanes are usually blocked by fly tippers

[@mohSin_9739]

When did this happened

[@gmoney2428]

Didn’t even say if they found any guns 😂

[@cdrom1070]

because they seized complete bullshit. 17 air rifles, a musket and a ghetto rigged shotgun (probably sold for rat hunting). www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8722767/Pictured-Terrifying-arsenal-weapons-seized-traveller-site.html

[@tryagain873]

Ryan Hughes we're your sources for these slaves then?

[@cdrom1070]

@@tryagain873 he got a old article from july and confused it with this recent raid, I found it myself, but it was dated like July 11. It is September

[@FaithRox]

And not a single gun or bullet was found. Just someone's personal stash of drugs and a couple of dogs.

[@YuureiInu]

They didn't want to play the ball and got raided.

[@user-ss1hz2iq4p]

I remember hearing the heli flying at like 3am I didn't even know what was going on until my friends told me in the morning

[@1NOIAM]

Good, get punished.

[@pyromagic7113]

Ever since Rotherham I've lost all respect for the police doesn't matter what they do they will forever be tainted.

[@mythoughts7722]

Feel exactly the same.

[@Lightworkers.]

Nice one 👏👏

[@earlmcraw5606]

And here we see 100 police officers surrounding what appears to be empty caravans! 😂

[@BOXINGBUZZ]

any guns there ?

[@jactucker6636]

Funny how they didn't find a single gun

[@justsaying7742]

Jac Tucker Air rifles ffs. What a joke their intel was lol.

[@christinemary7101]

Now get to Dover asap

[@Joe72399]

Why would they go dover

[@Easternlodown]

J Macisaac because there are people trying to claim asylum and Christine is a colossal gammon and believes that we should use automatic weapons to deny people’s rights to a safe life because Christine believes that if she found herself in a suddenly war-torn country, she wouldn’t do the exact same thing and flee.

[@christinemary7101]

@@Easternlodown most not from war torn countries , wouldnt qualify for asylum, pass many safe countries , protact our borders , from illegals

[@Easternlodown]

A Khani Christine means “protect” but she is an uneducated gammon and thus cannot spell

[@user-ql5vj1di5h]

About time lads.👌

[@cdrom1070]

to seize 17 air rifles, a musket and a cobbled together shot gun used for rat hunting with 700 men. A normal might have this kind of response, for like a missing nuclear weapon.

[@patttate7784]

@@cdrom1070 Yes mate. More racist propaganda I’m afraid.

[@cyanideedibles6065]

The police are scared of the travellers

[@StoutProper]

They needed additional resources to make some arrests? What were the other 700 ground troops doing, wanking over their guns?

[@johnnygray2801]

There were the CTSFO's who were making the initial arrests etc. Then the TSG officers, aka the riot officers who were doing lower risk warrants on some of the addresses and also I assume crowd control and searching. Then there will of been response officers for cordons since it's a big caravan site, and officers from taskforce or whatever unit was investigating it.

[@Michael-yz4mc]

I actually see this happening before hand I thought WW3 had started with like 40 police cars with armed officers wearing balaclavas it was crazy!!

[@Michaelsrevelation]

They found nothing

[@moneytalks4266]

Where abouts in south east london is this

[@slimwillo]

I see cops not guns

[@UrMothersLoverr]

did they even find any firearms?

[@haroldamiss4883]

christ theyve even got mp's there

[@jimmyjohnstone5878]

Well done all the officers involved.

[@turnip5359]

Why can't we just watch the video without some newschump narrating over the top of it?

[@patttate7784]

For a couple of air rifles. Nice use of tax payers money. How much did this actually cost. Outrageous

[@tombrowett8063]

air rifles are not illegal in the UK

[@richardcruickshank4026]

This was in star lane Orpington always trouble there. About time sumthing done

[@thefiestaguy8831]

This was Star Lane in Orpington.

[@skinhead-ej8ff]

Did they find any guns tho?

[@cdrom1070]

air rifles and a old musket. total joke

[@martinconneally8756]

Knives it is

[@BettyTunney-d4s]

Monahan Forest

[@Sean-qn5qu]

Bit over kill

[@loudoguk4187]

Wait until these police turn into robots Edit:get replaced by robots

[@simonheywood1286]

👀💥It's about dammn time!!! ... London is getting way out of control, that includes Luton, Manchester, Birmingham & Liverpool.

[@thekingstayking836]

if I had a gun and heard them flashbangs at the door it would make me reach for it

[@andrewsimm633]

Gawd dam the CTSFO 😍

[@jjfrom2814]

Possibly need a few more officers 👮‍♀️ 😂

[@bwaynegibson1468]

No guns found

[@tinyrodent2821]

0:05. Why on earth did he point a presumably loaded gun at another cop?

[@johnnygray2801]

I can assume he was going to cover the window and didn't see the officer before he pointed his MCX.

[@KcKeegan]

Bet they didn't find any guns

[@tommothedog]

Legalise fire arms

[@32ewing]

so no guns found then 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@charlieperales6629]

They went in harder on the peaceful protestors at Trafalgar Sq

[@ice484]

Despicable people during a national crisis...throw the lock keys away !

[@warwickshiremidlandsweathe9067]

I can't wait for the day for a raid to happen to the 3 pikey yards near me

[@JustmyopinionSublick]

Go and ask your Mother, I heard she couldn't wait either. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🇮🇪

[@leetrisk]

let me get my gun from them that i paid for first SMH.

[@commercio3564]

1:14 Look at the size of these men! Warriors!

[@Symcuz]

Can hold a Ching

[@angelogandolfo4174]

Damn, the use of flash-bangs by police is quite rare in the uk….

[@blackarnold]

I think there 9 bangs, shits them up

[@Michelle_Schu-blacka]

Nobody mentioning skin colour? I wonder why.

[@ZainAli-ou8ro]

I love to be police girl because its very adventurous But unfortunately because of my culture i can't dive to this deep and adventurous career ocean. I salute all the loyal police all over the world

[@jp-wd9qy]

Bet that’s spade green

[@jackz_27]

Star Lane site, St Mary cray Orpington.

[@Doonie310]

Give as much attention for the criminals of westminster

[@nebakiyonlanyarrak]

jesus

[@Ektumte10]

Can some one supply Guns in Myanmar please for civilian

[@Qezelbas]

London looking like Pakistan each day thanks to Sadık Khan

[@will_n775]

Bloody hell I live near there

[@tryagain873]

Send a small army in to Tyson Furys cousins

[@TheRealJMz]

I’m from here and I’m actually cousins with Tyson fury aswell as quite a few people from star lane site 😂

[@Etharebard]

this is why i love london

[@JL-fx4ic]

Gotta hate the gavvas

[@simiouno6125]

The shades find 2 water pistols & a paper dart. Result ! !

[@bardhixhafa6597]

Thousands of police and what did they arrest were a old couple and a skinny giza who barely could walk out of the caravan 🤣🤣🤣 How much did it cost this operation 3 years of investigation and 3.7 mil 💷

[@ellenward2120]

They are Scumbags! Well done the police 🤜

[@memealwaysbeme6308]

Just in capital hmm 🤔 why u doin now shooting been happening for years 👏👏 that's quick action

[@freedommatters3176]

Cool story

[@tripler9632]

St Mary's Cray boyyyy

[@brodiechapman6990]

very funny keep up the good work

[@paololuckyluke2854]

Oh, and I wonder why there are no criminals in this video! The pink elephant in the room? UK looking more and more like the US.

[@johnnygray2801]

Well, why are there no criminals in the video? Not like they have a right not to have their faces plastered on a press release or anything, nah that would be stupid, right?

[@rogercantwell1120]

Knackers

[@kianwaines204]

They done this to a house in my earia other day exact same bangs helies and guns for 1 crack head loooooool

[@ethandunn6498]

kian waines i have never seen anyone spell area like that go back to year 6 man

[@johnnygray2801]

That will of been just a normal operation. This was an organized and large scale one.

[@nba5130]

lol they looked exactly as I thought - but hey guess it’s our problem 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@josephjoestar995]

Rainbow 6 Siege

[@Chefchen21]

good Job..soon follow te Rest.. Trump start to clean the US too. ;-)

[@deanlee5139]

Another waste of taxpayers money try protecting are beachs muppets

[@norffc1548]

Congratulations u win the award for the dumbest comment

[@nikonfan2407]

Your schooling was clearly a waste of tax payer money too it seems.

[@1966Depeche]

Great work !! Hope the site was torched after the raid ?