The police carried out a series of raids and found drugs and various weapons like machetes, zombie knives, and a fake gun.
Greater Manchester The Greater Manchester Police (GMP) announced that they have arrested 30 people in different properties across the Bury area.
The police stated that they recovered ‘huge’ amounts of cash, drugs, and dangerous weapons from specific areas in Radcliffe, Unsworth, and Whitefield on Thursday.
The raids were part of Operation AVRO, an initiative by the police to put a lot of resources into a particular region every month.
Authorities also seized about £12,000 worth of illegal items from businesses during this month’s operation.
This included nearly 1,000 illegal vapes and over 4,200 cigarettes.
Traffic officers also gave out penalties for a total of 127 traffic and speeding violations, which led to six driving prohibition notices, the seizure of three vehicles, and the arrest of one person.
Chris Hill, a GMP Chief Superintendent and Commander for Bury, said: ‘Operation AVRO is an opportunity for us to increase our resources in Greater Manchester and combat criminals in order to keep the people in the borough of Bury safe.
‘The only way we can remove criminals from the streets is through information from the public, and all the activity we carried out yesterday was based on this, so thank you to those who provided us with such intelligence.
‘We have arrested 30 people, taken vehicles off the road, and with the help of our partners, we have achieved significant results across the Bury district.’
This comes at a time of increased public attention following a series of controversies and scandals that have harmed public trust in the force.
In February, news emerged that a constable from the Greater Manchester Police, Radslaw Mikulski, had been dismissed for using racially aggravated language on two separate occasions.
While the exact nature of his comments has not been disclosed, they were serious enough for his superiors to have ordered his name to be added to a blacklist at the College of Policing.
Meanwhile, the force is still waiting for the outcome of a public inquiry into the treatment of women in custody, which is partly based on allegations from a woman who says that officers from the Greater Manchester Police forced her to strip naked in a cell while pressuring her to withdraw complaints against them.
In a report released in January, it was found that vulnerable children were ‘left at the mercy’ of pedophile grooming gangs in Rochdale for years because the police repeatedly failed to investigate reports of child abuse.
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