State Television Airs Footage of Major Drug Raid CCTV's program on the police raid on the methamphetamine village in Guangdong Province. Chinese state television broadcast video on Tuesday of last month's raid by 3,000 police officers on a village described as a center of methamphetamine production. Helicopter-mounted cameras showed the heavily armed officers moving through the village in Guangdong Province in southeastern China. In the faint green light of the night-vision images, the officers accompanied by barking police dogs are seen breaking down reinforced doors to arrest suspects. The police called Boshe village, in Lufeng city, a "fortress" of methamphetamine production. About 20 percent of its 1,700 households manufactured methamphetamine for a living, the police told the China Central Television interviewers. Lin Chunjia, an officer of the antidrug administration in Lufeng, said that villagers armed with guns and homemade explosives had successfully fended off arrest attempts in the past. The raid footage showed the police using an ax and hand-held battering ram to break open a door. It took two minutes to force it open, the police said. Inside, the police found a man and a woman who they said were attempting to flush drugs down a toilet. A total of 182 suspects were arrested in the raid, and the authorities dismantled 77 drug labs. "A drug village was able to defy the law in broad daylight, which teaches us a lesson and serves as a warning," the CCTV anchor concluded.