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UK: Police giving villagers a nose for drug farms

Teeside Mercury

Monday 16 May 2011

VILLAGERS are being trained to sniff-out cannabis as police continue their crackdown on drug farms.
Over the last few months, a number of cannabis farms have been found in residential properties in County Durham. In some cases the criminal activity has come to light after neighbours with a nose for no-good activity have contacted police.
Cannabis has been shown to residents at Police and Community Together (Pact) meetings in Evenwood, so people are able to recognise the drug's distinctive smell.

Insp Martin Peace, from Bishop Auckland Police, said: "It's always valuable if a member of the public walking down the street can smell it.

"Quite often drug farms get turned over with warrants if people are able to recognise cannabis." Insp Peace said allowing residents to experience the drug's smell at Pact meetings was "useful".

Evenwood pensioner Raymond Gibson also praised the initiative.

He said: "The Pact meeting was my first contact with drugs and I think it's good that I will be able to know the smell."

The telltale signs of a possible cannabis farm include a distinctive smell coming from the property and blinds firmly drawn at all windows. There will often be different groups of people visiting the property at odd hours, said a police spokesman.

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