Undercover police officer dressed as wheelchair-bound patient captures drug gang in San Juan de Miraflores
Officers from the Green Squadron infiltrated as schoolchildren and a wheelchair patient to dismantle "Los Santurrones de SJM", with three detained.
Undercover operation in SJM: officer breaks fence and detains three suspected traffickers
Three people were detained in San Juan de Miraflores following an undercover operation by the Green Squadron of Peru's National Police, according to trome.com. The officers infiltrated the vicinity of a property disguised as schoolchildren and, most notably, as a wheelchair-bound patient.
The strategy responded to the presence of educational institutions near the targeted property. With these disguises, the officers managed to approach the residence without alerting the suspects or other people in the surrounding area.
A drone from the Terna team recorded every movement of the deployment from above. The signal to proceed came with a radio instruction: "Gentlemen, we have green light, we can enter."
The decisive moment came when the officer characterised as a patient approached the property fence in a wheelchair. At the call of "Rise, Lazarus", the officer stood up, extracted a crowbar he had been carrying hidden under a blanket and struck the fence to open the way for the rest of the team. The manoeuvre took those inside by surprise.
Simultaneously, another group of police officers dressed as schoolchildren arrived at the scene with ladders to access the second level of the property and cut off possible escape routes. The intervention was executed from multiple points at the same time.
The operation concluded in a few minutes. The three detainees were inside the property, which according to the information released had reportedly been used by the group called "Los Santurrones de San Juan de Miraflores", identified as a suspected organisation dedicated to the trafficking of illicit substances.
Colonel Pedro Rojas, head of the Green Squadron, attributed the success of the operation to the use of disguises. "Our camouflage strategy, passing ourselves off as schoolchildren and a wheelchair patient, allowed us to enter without being detected," said the official.
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