This is the dramatic moment the police's drone squad helped apprehend two suspects in a "county lines" raid.
Footage has been released by North Wales Police's Drone Unit showing how they helped to detain two people during an operation to tackle drug dealing in Flintshire .
The video shows two police cars outside a house as officers move in to carry out their raid, before two people are seen running from the back of a property.
They clamber through a garden before climbing over a fence and running through a neighbouring garden.
The drone operator continues to film the pair as they run down a neighbouring street away from the scene of the raid.
They then make their way into a wooded area while police units are brought in to make an arrest.
In their post, the drone unit said: "Great use of a force drone supporting a county lines operation in Flintshire .
"Without the drone keeping an eye these two might have got away, but officers were directed in and arrested them."
North Wales Police did not provide specific details about when and where the raid took place, but said it was in the last month.
The force said the operation was carried out to prevent the supply of drugs into Flintshire .
Two "vulnerable people" were also safeguarded as a result of the operation.
The utilisation of vulnerable people in the supply of drugs is a key component of the classic county lines model.
Inspector Craig Jones, from the North Wales Police Drone Unit, added: “This is just one example of the wide variety of ways where drones can be put to use, assisting officers in all aspects of policing.”
County lines is the police term for urban gangs supplying drugs to suburban areas and market and coastal towns using dedicated mobile phone lines or “deal lines”
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Gangs often use children and vulnerable people to move drugs and money.
Gangs establish a base in the market location, typically by taking over the homes of local vulnerable adults by force or coercion in a practice referred to as "cuckooing".
