IT was a careful, methodical job for police at the scene of one of the raided properties yesterday.
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That even extended to the use of a sledgehammer to get into a suspect’s late white Ford Falcon parked under the carport of the Vickers Road unit.
As one officer held up a protective blanket, another used the sledgehammer to carefully and quietly break then clear away the glass within seconds.
The car was searched just as carefully — envelopes in the glove box checked, side door pockets examined.
Earlier police took two of the seven people arrested yesterday — a man and woman, both handcuffed — through the unit as part of their investigations.
The pair, with the woman using a maroon hooded jumper to hide her identity, were then taken away for further questioning at the Albury police station.
Another late model Ford — this one red — was earlier searched by several police, before a tow truck pulled up outside the unit at 11.45am. It was gone 15 minutes later.
A few minutes later a detective left the unit with several evidence bags, possibly drugs.
The scene was relatively calm compared with an earlier raid at Penrith.
Video footage released yesterday by NSW Police showed an officer calling out he had a search warrant before using a police battering ram to smash a sliding door.
The houses raided yesterday included addresses in Union Road, North Albury and Gumnut Court, East Albury.
Albury’s Supt Beth Stirton indicated the police raids were extremely well-planned and thorough in their execution.
“We also had the drug dogs there to go through the premises (and) we had to send them through to the different locations, so that took a little bit longer,” she said.
While the seven people arrested were likely to be charged by the time they front Albury Local Court, the investigation is far from finished.
“My understanding is that the upline supplier came from the city, so that’s why we’re conducting investigations in other areas,” Supt Stirton said.