Police conduct operation at Guertin arena in Gatineau, Que. [Video]

Police launched an operation to move 13 trailers and evict residents from the parking lot outside the Robert Guertin Centre in Gatineau, Que. Thursday morning, where a homeless encampment has been located for months.

Six people were arrested after officers with Gatineau police and the Sûreté du Quebec moved in at 6:30 a.m.

In a media release, police said officers were executing five search warrants for narcotics in trailers, focusing on five of the 13 trailers still on the site.

At the request of the City of Gatineau, police then issued a formal eviction notice to occupants of the encampment on municipal property, with an officer informing people in the trailers who refused to leave “they were illegally occupying municipal property.”

“No occupant cooperated,” police said.

“Following the refusal to cooperate and leave of their own accord, the police began securing the trailers and arresting the people illegally occupying the land.”

A trailer is towed …