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# Policing, the Lewisham Way
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2004/10/policing_the_le_1/
- Published: 2004-10-27T13:34:32.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:02:03.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

On Friday night, One Woman and I headed over to visit friends in St Reatham. On the way, near New Cross, we passed a huge number of coppers. Now I know why:

> More than 400 officers were involved in raids on three businesses in Lewisham on Friday night – the culmination of a huge offensive against gun and drug crime in the borough, with police making 80 arrests. Police used the Millennium Dome as a base to prepare for the raids, rolling out at 10.30pm in two buses and 20 police vans to storm a barber’s, a pub and a takeaway restaurant in Lewisham Way. Officers used a special, airport-style scanning machine to search suspects detained in the raids for firearms and drugs.

Read more [here.](http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0500lewisham/tm%5Fobjectid=14796575%26method=full%26siteid=50100%26headline=80%2darrests%2din%2d400%2dcop%2draids-name%5Fpage.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)