£17,000 of drugs seized in series of police raids

Police make 10 arrests in anti-drugs operation

By Catherine Shanks and Jennifer McKiernan

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IN ACTION: Police raid North-east homes as part of Operation Franklin.

CRACKDOWN: Police try to gain access to houses during Operation Franklin.

OPERATION: Police officers break down a door during the crackdown.

EVIDENCE: Some of the drugs haul seized by police during their high-profile crackdown in Peterhead.

GETTING TOUGH: Police officers broke down the front doors of homes in the raids.

READY: DI Stewart Kidd briefs plainclothes drugs officers.

RAIDS: Police seized £10,000 of cannabis during the operation.

TEN people have so far been arrested in police raids which have seized £17,000 of illegal drugs.

There have been 16 raids in Peterhead and Fraserburgh, and police confirmed £15,000 of cannabis and £2,000 of heroin had been seized.

Yesterday a team of 60 officers battered down nine doors and arrested four people.

Det Insp Stewart Kidd, who is heading Operation Franklin, said the aim was to make the North-east a hostile environment for drug dealers.

He said: “Grampian Police will continue to target those within our communities who choose to deal and distribute controlled drugs.”

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