Three men have been arrested and 250kg of cocaine seized in an operation by a specialist law enforcement team set up to fight organised crime.

The trio, all Albanian nationals in their 30s, were arrested yesterday by officers from the London Organised Crime Partnership – a team of officers from the National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police.

Officers arrested the suspects after the drugs – which have a street value of £20m – were recovered from a lorry in Dartford, Kent.

The men remain in custody and are being questioned on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs.

Andy Tickner of the OCP, said: “This is a significant seizure of cocaine and without my officers’ efforts to seize it, it would have been on the streets of our communities feeding addiction and leading to other serious offences.”

17 October 2025