This was the dramatic rude awakening a drug dealer got when police caught up with him asleep on the sofa.

Footage from Kent Police shows officers bursting him into Kriston Marshall’s home.

Officers smashed into the property with a battering ram shouting: “Police, show your hands.”

They then handcuffed the bewildered dealer as he still lay on the sofa and told him his rights.

He appears to be wide-eyed in the shock of the raid taking place.

Marshall was one of two drug dealers jailed and their supply in Ashford was dismantled following an investigation by Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team.

Marshall, 31, and Charlie Bright, 23, were sentenced to five years and six months and three years and two months imprisonment respectively.

Last year, digital forensic analysts identified three telephone numbers being used to send bulk messages to known drug users between June 25 and October 12.

Detectives identified that Marshall was in control of the phones.

Officers subsequently carried out search warrants at a number of addresses and seized quantities of cocaine and heroin, as well as a number of burner phones, drug paraphernalia and a knuckleduster.

Marshall and Bright were consequently arrested for being involved in the supply of class A drugs.

A later examination of the confiscated mobile phones identified coded communications between Marshall and consumers, relating to drugs orders.

The network mainly served Ashford but stretched to Canterbury and as far as London.

On October 18 last year, Marshall, of Arlington, Ashford, was charged with being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and being concerned in the supply of heroin.

Bright, of Nine Acres, Ashford, was charged with possession with the intent to supply heroin and possession with the intent to supply cocaine.

Bright pleaded guilty to the charges, but Marshall denied the allegations.

He was later convicted following a trial at Canterbury Crown Court in April.

Both were subsequently remanded in custody until they were sentenced on June 4 at the same court.

Investigating officer, PC Samantha Ward, said after the court case: “Marshall and Bright ran an extensive drug supply network that took advantage of drug users, all to fund their own lifestyle.

“It remains a force priority to dismantle county lines. We remain alert to new evidence, including phone numbers and text messages, so as to quickly apprehend perpetrators of drugs-related crimes and bring them swiftly to justice.”