A police drugs raid was called off on Friday night, after a suspected firearms incident in Chessington.

Officers had been preparing to carry out the raid as part of National Tackling Drugs Week, but a last minute call called for their withdrawal and they aborted the search warrant.

It turned out to be a false alarm, sparked by a mistaken sighting from a member of the public.

A police spokesman said: “The information we had, we had to act on.

"It now looks like a group of kids were chasing a boy.

"The information we had was that someone was pointing something at him and because it was from a distance, we had to treat it seriously.”

The cancelled raid was among a number of intelligence-led operations carried out in the area throughout the week.

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