WATCH: BBC's Crimewatch UK to feature gang armed with guns and hammers who raided Peterborough home today

The investigation into an armed gang who dressed as police officers while they raided a home in Peterborough is set to be featured on BBC One’s Crimewatch UK.

The programme will focus on the horrific crime, which took place in August 2022.

Police were called at just gone 4am on 4 August that year with reports of a disturbance at a house in Sheringham Way, Orton Longueville.

A group of five men – Olsi Cakoni, Florin Doci, Tom Dodaj, Malesio Gjonaj and one who remains unknown – posed as police officers and armed themselves with guns, hammers and crowbars while they forced their way into the home which had been used to stash large amounts of cash.

The work of detectives from the force’s northern Acquisitive Crime Team (ACT) to catch the group within hours of the heist will be highlighted on the show

The lead detective in the case features on the show explaining the “high-level sophistication of the job” with surveillance cameras, crowbars, fake police outfits, firearms and some significant sentences handed out at the end of it, being “the kind of thing that you really join the job for”.

Using police footage and dramatic reconstruction, Crimewatch Caught re-tells the story of how the force’s quick response to catch those responsible paid off.

The episode features interviews with the detectives involved in catching the gang and also shocking CCTV of the raid.

In August last year, Madion Gjonaj, 28, of Broomfield Avenue, Wood Green, Greater London was jailed for 11-and-a-half years, Florin Doci, 26, of Station Road, Raleigh, Essex was jailed for nine years and four months,

Malesio Gjonaj, 22, of Belvoir Street, Hull was jailed for nine years, Tomas Dodaj, 26, of Aldermans Hill, Hockley, Essex was jailed for nine years, Olsi Cakoni, 26, of Sevington Road, Brent Cross, Greater London was jailed for nine years, Aurela Marcu, 26, of Redgrave Close, Croydon, Greater London was jailed for two years, and Arjada Lleshi, 33, of Station Road, South Tottenham, Greater London was jailed for 20 months, suspended for two years for their role in the raid.

Following the court case, Detective Sergeant Rich Ellison said: “I would like to reassure members of the public that while incidents of this nature are quite frightening, they are thankfully very rare in our county and we believe this was an isolated incident.

“This shows just how far organised crime groups are willing to go to operate their illegal activity. We are relentless in our approach to tackling them and will do everything in our power to put them before the courts and ultimately in prison.”