VIOLENT offenders, drug dealers and car criminals were targeted in a series of dawn raids in Redditch last Wednesday.

Fourteen people were arrested following the raids, which were also carried out in Bromsgrove and Wyre Forest as part of Operation Acorn.

Arrests in connection with actual bodily harm, wounding, indecent assault, supply of Class A drugs and car crime were made.

The operation involved more than 50 officers.