Operation Machinize: Hundreds of barbershops targeted in NCA-coordinated crackdown. Read the full story ➡️ #OpMachinize

265 barbershops and other cash-intensive businesses across England and Wales were visited by police and other law enforcement officers during a three-week crackdown on high street crime in Operation Machinize.

They seized: 💰 £40,000 in cash 🚬 200,000 cigarettes and 7,000 packs of tobacco 🚫 over 8,000 illegal vapes 🚗 two vehicles ⚠️ two cannabis farms found ❄ more than £1m in freezing orders were also secured

The NCA estimates that £12bn of criminal cash is generated in the UK each year, which is typically smuggled out of the country or integrated into the legitimate financial system using a variety of laundering techniques.

The crackdown was led by the NCA but involved 19 different police forces and Regional Organised Crime Units, as well as national agencies including HMRC, Trading Standards and Home Office Immigration Enforcement. It was supported by NPCC.

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Well done NCA 👏👏👏 Now start doing all those large sweet shops in Oxford Street London.

Failure by successive governments to stop importing these people - it’s too late now, it’s a fully established network

Hope you took an Albanian translator with you.

Horse an stable door

Keep going…

Did you raid @NorthHertsDC area? 👍🏻 Or is that forthcoming?