VIDEO: Tractor tears down wall in Lancing drugs raid
POLICE officers used a tractor to pull down a wall before storming Lancing's suspected cannabis café.
The carefully orchestrated raid saw scores of officers at the site, off Freshbrook Road, Lancing, during the afternoon of Thursday, October 11.
They smashed a window at the reinforced building before chaining its metal bars to a tractor.
But instead of just pulling the window from the building, a large part of the wall came crashing to the ground.
It was yesterday unclear how many people were inside the building, although Chief Inspector Lawrence Hobbs, Adur police district commander, said he hoped to release information soon.
Click here to view our slideshow gallery of photographs of the raid and the aftermath.
The site was previously raided in July, and Ch Insp Hobbs said the second raid was part of an operation designed to build up a case to present to the Crown Prosecution Service.
He added: "What we have done here is a clear signal to the local community and the neighbours that we are not going to tolerate this open-air drug dealing taking place in a residential area."
• The Herald was again at the fore with its local news coverage and attended the raid with police.
Click the green Play button to watch video footage of Thursday's events and police comment on the raid.
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