Concrete Case: Police Seize Heroin During Drug Swoop

Drugs cops found 24 kilos of heroin encased in a concrete block when they stopped a vehicle in east London.

Forty-eight packages of the Class A drug – each weighing 0.5 kilos – were seized.

During an ongoing proactive police investigation a 32 year-old suspected drug dealer was stopped by marked police vehicles in Dagenham on November 17.

The local man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs and taken into police custody.

Commander Dave McLaren, from the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Crime Command, said: “This demonstrates the extent criminals will go to in order to conceal drugs trafficking activity from police. 

“However, we are committed to being one step ahead of these types of criminals to make sure we remove drugs from streets of London.

“Drugs supply is a driving factor in the levels of violent crime and by taking forty-eight blocks of suspected heroin out of the hands of criminals we will have made a major blow to organised drugs supply networks.”