A co­or­di­nat­ed an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the ear­ly hours of yes­ter­day morn­ing led to the ar­rest of two Va­len­cia men, the seizure of a home­made shot­gun and the re­cov­ery of a 16-year-old mi­nor.

The ex­er­cise, which took place be­tween 1 am and 4 am, in­volved a se­ries of tac­ti­cal raids, search­es and rov­ing check­points through­out the Va­len­cia dis­trict. The tar­get­ed crack­down was co­or­di­nat­ed by Se­nior Supt Eti­enne, Supt Be­har­ry, ag In­spec­tor Harp­er and ag Sgt Ram­per­sad. Su­per­vi­sion of the ground teams was pro­vid­ed by Con­st Sali­na and ag Cpl Sama­roo.

The op­er­a­tion saw a heavy de­ploy­ment of law en­force­ment as­sets, in­clud­ing of­fi­cers at­tached to the Emer­gency and Dis­as­ter Task Force (EDTF), the Va­len­cia Charge Room and the Va­len­cia Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID).