More than 20 officers swooped in on three homes inside flats at 25 High Street, Johnstone, on Tuesday at around 10am as part of the intelligence-led operation.

A 55-year-old man and his 35-year-old son were both arrested after a large quantity of what is suspected to be the class A drug heroin and almost £6,000 in cash were seized.

The suspects did not go quietly when police burst through the door with a ‘Rammit’ device, also known as the Enforcer or Big Key.

A split second later, the door was swinging wide open and the search teams were racing through it.

The Gazette was there to watch the dramatic scenes unfold.

An hour before the bust, officers involved in the daylight crime blitz were told by Chief Inspectors that their duties would be to show suspected heroin and prescription drug dealers that police would be there to stop them.

After cops broke down three doors, the two men were marched from the flats wearing nothing but their navy dressing gowns as they attempted to resist arrest. The 35-year-old suspect was forced to wear an anti-spit hood in a bid to protect officers involved in the operation.

In the lead up to the operation, Inspector Cassie Glass, of Johnstone Community Police, told The Gazette: “We will be tackling three addresses in a block of flats in Johnstone with a mix of plain-clothed and high-visibility officers on a planned, intelligence-led operation to tackle drug dealing.

“This is one of the main concerns in the community and we aim to tackle this on a weekly basis with our action plan to blitz drug dealers.

“It’s very effective and we execute warrants on a regular basis as a means of keeping the community safe and protecting youngsters who are taking drugs for the first time and have no idea what they’re taking. Our main aim is to tackle drug dealers who are concerned in supply. Heroin ruins lives, it’s so addictive and the impact of heroin also has a knock-on effect as people have to commit crime to pay for it.

“We’ve had a number of robberies in Johnstone and a lot of the people involved in house breakings are doing this to pay for drugs.” During the raid, officers hunted for drugs and suspicious documents by searching inside cereal boxes, drawers and underneath floorboards.

DCI Stuart Lees, who led the team, said: “It’s a block of six flats and three of the occupiers of those flats are family relations and associations suspected of dealing.” The suspects are expected to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court this week.