This is the moment police raided a string of Turkish barber shops and seized more than £500,000 in illegal cash during a crackdown on money laundering.
Bodycam footage shows officers smashing their way into the businesses which are increasingly used as fronts by criminal gangs.
They seized more than £500,000 in dirty cash, along with £16,000 and arrested seven people after swooping on 33 premises last month.
The raids were carried out by West Mercia Police, together with Trading Standards West Midlands Fire and Rescue, Immigration Enforcement, and HMRC.
They formed part of Operation Machinize – a crackdown on gangs using barber shops for fraud, money laundering and selling illicit goods.
More than over £6 million in criminal assets have been seized over a year.
The West Mercia Police operation coincides with a broader crackdown by the National Crime Agency, which has overseen dozens of raids in recent months.
More than 750 barbers opened in the UK last year.
Detective Inspector Dan Fenn, of West Mercia Police’s Economic Crime team, said: ‘Organised crime groups are opportunistic and exploit legitimate businesses, such as barbershops, to hide their illegal cash flow.
‘The high cash turnover of these businesses makes them ideal for disguising illicit activities.
‘Our work during Operation Machinize sends a clear message to these crime networks: we will not tolerate criminal activity in our communities.
‘Following these warrants, 34 intelligence reports have been submitted, helping to build a stronger intelligence picture and supporting future operations.
‘Community intelligence played a key role in this operation. Some of the information used to plan these raids came from public tip-offs.
‘That local support is invaluable, and we encourage anyone with information about businesses involved in money laundering to report it.’
Drugs expert Gary Carroll, who spent more than 10 years in law enforcement and now gives court testimony on street drug gangs, recently revealed there was a ‘copycat’ aspect to the exploitation of the Turkish barber format by criminals.
‘It’s a well trodden path that one crime group will just copy another when they see something is working,’ he told .
‘And while we are increasingly moving away from cash as a society, barbers are still predominantly cash based – something they can get away with because the fees they charge are relatively low.
‘Then there’s the added attraction of this being an unregulated market that isn’t monitored by any government body. So there’s a lack of enforcement, without the one-off hygiene checks you’d get with food businesses.’
Shops marketing themselves as ‘Turkish’ barbers are often run by other nationalities, including Kurds and Albanians.
Even so, Mr Carroll drew a link between the rise of Turkish barber shops and the continuing popularity of heroin trafficked by gangs from the country and elsewhere in Asia.
‘When we look at money laundering there’s the well established affiliation with Turkish heroin, and the demand for that is certainly not decreasing in the UK,’ he said.
Traditional Turkish-style barbers are known for stylish haircuts – usually completed with a hot towel and cut-throat razor.
But there have long been concerns about criminals infiltrating the trade.