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West Midlands Police reveal cost of clearing out illegal cannabis farms

Mark Crown

Birmingham Mail

Wednesday 09 Mar 2011

POLICE have spent almost 450,000 UKP in less than a year dismantling cannabis farms across the Midlands.

The 434,000 UKP cost of the work, carried out since last summer, was revealed for the first time by West Midlands Police.

Traditionally, police officers who swooped on cannabis factories also had to empty them, often taking them away from their front-line duties for an entire shift.

To combat the problem, police last year set up a team of cannabis "dustbusters", made up of civilian staff who are sent in to clean up makeshift drugs dens.

And the team has helped to free up officers' time to investigate those behind the cannabis dens and return to the beat.

The number of sophisticated drugs farms found hidden away in houses and business premises in the West Midlands has almost quadrupled in recent years.

A total of 174 factories were found in 2004 but this rocketed to 672 – almost two a day – by 2008.

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