THIS is the dramatic moment 220 cops staged a complete "lockdown" of Britain's most notorious drug-dealing street.
Hundreds of people were were stopped and searched in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, South London — an area notorious with the illegal trade for 30 years.
Police targeted 20 cocaine street dealers whose clients include middle-class professionals who come from as far as Bournemouth. (!!!)
Each is estimated to make £20,000 a WEEK in 24 hour shifts. Undercover detectives have been secretly filming the multi-million pound operation outside a KFC restaurant since January.
One man was found with £5,000 cash on him. Another was forced to the ground where his stash was uncovered and confiscated by officers. Police say that a significant amount of crack cocaine was recovered.
A third tried to flee down the road shouting "Get out the f****** way" to passers-by. But an officer on a bike managed to catch him. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Sedgemore, who led the operation, said the dealers were making up to 1,000 sales a week.
He said: "We're really pleased with how tonight's gone. The message is that these dealers cannot hang about the streets of Brixton. We will stop them.
"We will move them out and off the streets. "These dealers are making about £20,000 a week from about 1,000 deals at about £20 a go. And about half of that amount is profit.
"They could face between five and seven years in jail for dealing class A drugs and we really want to give out a message that pushing drugs in this way is not acceptable and will be stamped out by us."
DCI Sedgemore added: "We really want to get it out that Brixton is not the number one crime spot in London anymore."
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