Thirteen people have been arrested following a series of early-morning raids in Wirral.
People living on Newling Street in Birkenhead were woken up shortly before 7am as doors went in at three separate addresses on the street in targeted strikes combating organised crime across the borough. The action comes as part of Operation Ground, which saw 13 people arrested on suspicion of Conspiracy to Supply Drugs (Class A and B).
The ECHO and other media were invited to attend one of the raids, where a woman could be heard calling officers a "gang of muppets" from an upstairs window as children were among those watching from the street below. Newling Street has been a "problem" area for police in recent years, with one resident claiming scenes like today's "happen all the time", while another said he regularly finds human faeces in his bin.
