Operation Hypernova 2.0

Peterborough Telegraph

Cambs Police carry out a major operation tackling drug dealing

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00:44 - Operation Hypernova 2 is a culmination

00:47 and a bringing together of months of intelligence-led work,

00:50 working with Cambridgeshire Constabulary

00:53 as the lead force, working with our Eastern Region

00:56 Specialist Operations Unit colleagues,

00:58 the Metropolitan Police Operation Orochi team,

01:00 working together with BTP and partner agencies

01:02 to ultimately tackle county-lines criminality head-on

01:07 and to leave a message to those exploiting

01:10 the most vulnerable people in our society.

01:12 Their actions will not be tolerated

01:13 if they come to Cambridgeshire.

01:15 County lines and organized crime groups

01:19 are often sort of believed to be linked to drug dealing.

01:23 And although that can be seen as a vehicle

01:26 for how they go about their business enterprise,

01:29 what it really is is the exploitation of vulnerable children,

01:32 child criminal exploitation,

01:34 attacking those most vulnerable in our society.

01:38 And that's what all forms of organized crime

01:40 and county lines ultimately

01:42 is where the damage is caused

01:44 and how they affect the members of our community.

01:47 So our job and the job of Hypernova 2

01:49 was to really take the fight

01:51 to those that will look to exploit

01:54 the most vulnerable in our county.

01:55 As police change tactics,

02:02 so indeed to those involved in organized crime,

02:05 they start to plan better.

02:08 And they think that by being in Sheffield,

02:11 being in Rotherham, being in London,

02:13 that we will not seek them out.

02:16 But the answer to that is that we will.

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02:49 Every single thing we do in relation to Hypernova 2

02:52 is about building that public trust

02:54 and confidence in policing.

02:55 It is about building them bridges with the communities.

02:58 It is about showing the communities

03:00 that we won't be cast aside

03:03 by those who think they're above the law.

03:06 We will work tirelessly,

03:09 utilizing every tactic available at our arsenal

03:14 to ensure that we directly target

03:18 those that are dealing drugs,

03:21 exploiting kids, exploiting adults, and causing misery.

03:24 And if people see us going through doors

03:27 and they see that sort of hard-hitting way

03:30 in which we approach some of our early morning warrants,

03:33 ultimately what we want to do there,

03:35 and the reason we go about it the way we do

03:37 is to ensure that we capitalize on the early evidence.

03:39 We find them drugs, them phones.

03:42 We find the evidence that we need to ensure

03:44 that we can put these people behind bars

03:46 for a lengthy period of time,

03:47 but in front of the courts.

03:48 I think what jobs like Operation Hypernova,

04:11 Hypernova 2, all of the work we do

04:13 in the pursuit element around the war on county lines

04:17 and organized crime groups

04:19 is absolutely that the police cannot do this alone.

04:23 This is not a war on exploitation and drugs

04:27 that the police can win alone.

04:29 There's absolutely no way.

04:30 We need the public.

04:32 We need people to report in intelligence.

04:34 We need people to tell us their concerns

04:36 about people in their communities,

04:38 about that ability to be able to support

04:42 individual drug users to try and look at diversion paths.

04:45 To have that still there,

04:47 there is no way we will ever, ever win alone.

04:50 So it is all about working with partners,

04:52 working with communities.

04:54 The thing to note is that, you know,

05:10 the intelligence picture we've gathered is huge

05:12 and we will continue to make arrests

05:14 on the back of Hypernova.

05:16 And indeed, we will continue to make them arrests.

05:18 We've had more than 55 individuals arrested to date.

05:22 We've had more than 30 now remanded in custody

05:27 as a direct result of Hypernova 2.

05:29 We've closed down directly more than 50 plus lines

05:34 have been directly shut down.

05:36 Indirectly, there's been another huge amount

05:38 of line closure.

05:40 We expect, and this is exactly what we set out to do,

05:44 and directly affects drug dealing

05:47 county lines in Cambridgeshire.

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