£1.5m worth of cannabis discovered in raid

Date published: 02 February 2011

Greater Manchester Police's Whitefield Neighbourhood Policing Team has stopped an estimated £1.5million worth of cannabis from getting on to the streets.

Officers from the NPT executed a warrant at an address on Albert Close, Whitefield, just after 10.30am this morning, Wednesday 2 February 2011.

They found a number of plants and estimate their value to be around £1.5million.

Officers raided the property as the result of an intelligence-led operation.

Inspector Mark Kenny, from Whitefield NPT, said: "We have worked very closely with residents to drive down the threat of drugs and as the result of an intelligence-led operation we found this cannabis factory.

"The community should not be frightened by this significant find but reassured that we have taken these drugs out of circulation, stopped them causing misery to people and prevented those responsible for the cultivating these plants profiting from their illegal activities.

"Drugs production of this scale also has a hidden cost to the community in the hazards the set-up poses with untrained people adapting the electricity supply and the cost to suppliers of electricity and that is why we are always pleased to stop criminals in their tracks."

Anyone with information about drugs in their community should call police on 0161 872 5050 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.