Nearly 150 arrests made by police organised crime operation in East Yorkshire and North East Lincs
Operation Galaxy has been running this year
Last updated 28th Dec 2020
Nearly 150 arrests have been made in a police operation to tackle serious and organised crime across East Yorkshire and Northeast Lincolnshire.
Operation Galaxy has been running this year.
Police have been intercepting vehicles and prevent suspects from coming into or leaving the area.
Team leader, Sergeant Will Knapp, said: “We have access to high-powered cars and cutting-edge technology, such as mobile fingerprint recognition, which means when we carry out an operation, we’re likely to get results.
“I know sometimes people get frustrated when they have reported things like drug dealing to the force and it appears that we’ve not acted on it.
“But just because you haven’t seen us at the address doesn’t mean we haven’t targeted the people responsible – it may be that to make the biggest difference we have to take a different approach.
“In some cases, this might be my team targeting the offenders bringing drugs into the area or moving cash or weapons around.
“We combine the information you share with us with the intelligence gathered by our own teams and other police forces, to plan targeted strikes.
“We build up details about the vehicles suspects use, where and when key people are likely to be on the roads and what they are likely to have in the vehicles at any given times.
“We then use this to decide when to target these vehicles in order to get the best possible results and minimise any risk to the wider public.
“It’s great to know that we’re helping to protect the people who live and work in Northern Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire and make our communities safer.
“The work we do targets the people who cause the most harm and we hope that word is now getting around that Humberside is not a place where you can get away with it.”