Brazilian police raid Rio slum – in pictures

The Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro before it was occupied by police Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP Assault vehicles secure a street Photograph: Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty Images Police officers patrol the Rocinha slum during the Shock of Peace operation to install a peacekeeping unit Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters A navy armoured vehicle runs over motorbikes as it moves into the Rocinha slum Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP Police officers check a suspect Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters A paramilitary police helicopter hovers over Rocinha Photograph: Luiza Castro/AFP/Getty Images Civil police officers raid the most recent hideout of Rocinha's former boss, Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, a 35-year-old drug boss known as Nem Photograph: Tom Phillips for the Guardian Police inspect the house of the drug trafficker Sandro Luis Amorim, known as Peixe, in the Rocinha slum Photograph: Silvia Izquierdo/AP Police in Peixe's house Photograph: Silvia Izquierdo/AP A police officer carries evidence Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters Federal police patrol the Vidigal slum Photograph: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters Marines in an amphibious assault vehicle drive along a street in Rocinha Photograph: Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty Images