Six people arrested during a series of dawn raids yesterday have been charged with drug offences.

Police raided several properties in London and Gravesend as part of efforts to tackle county lines drug dealing.

A county line is a phone number associated with a gang working from cities who send dealers into rural and suburban areas to sell drugs.

All those arrested are allegedly associated with one phone number.

Seun Daramola, 33, of Keir Hardie Estate, Clapton; Sally Ann Taylor, 42, of Overcliffe, Gravesend; Lee Tait, 38, of Overcliffe, Gravesend; Kirk Huggins, 30, of Manor Grove, Peckham; Christopher Bolokor, 21, of Urmston Drive, Wimbledon; and Tasharn Reid-Watson, 20, of Willington Road, Stockwell, were all charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

Daramola has been remanded in custody to appear at Maidstone Crown Court on Thursday, January 18. His five co-defendants have all been bailed to appear before Medway magistrates' on Wednesday, January 24.

A 31-year-old woman from Kennington arrested on suspicion of committing a connected fraud offence has been released pending further enquiries.

The arrests were all made as part of an investigation under Operation Raptor, which aims to prevent and disrupt the sale of class A drugs in Kent.

Nine suspects had been targeted during the operation, with seven arrests made.