Two suspected drug producers were arrested after police busted a Telford cannabis farm and found drugs worth £70,000.
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00:40 We're a brand new team that's been set up. We started at the beginning of October.
00:45 Today we're acting on intelligence. We've done another operation and successfully we've got another cannabis farm here.
00:53 We've got about £50,000 worth in there. The plants were literally ready to crop.
00:58 The buds were quite sticky at the end of it so within a couple of weeks they'd have been out here and this would have been cut again and cropped.
01:07 Q. So you've made a couple of arrests?
01:10 Yeah, we've already been out to the address, successfully arrested two people.
01:15 Further located more, Class B and Class A at that location and they're currently now in custody.
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01:36 Q. It's been operating since October. What kind of results have you had?
01:40 We've been really successful. We're basically targeting politic offenders, shoplifters, warrants, prison recalls, anyone who breaches court bail.
01:49 We are on them. We're up to 105 arrests already in the last three months.
01:55 I generally believe that we've seen a really huge impact throughout the community.
02:01 What you guys have seen yourself today, members of the community have come out thanking us for the work we're doing, which is what it's all about.
02:10 So yeah, really good result. Hit the jackpot again today.
02:14 So as a result of conducting a warrant at 37 Trinity View, from information that we've gleaned from this warrant,
02:24 we've attended this address in Red Lake where we've arrested two people on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis.
02:32 They will now be taken into police custody where they will be questioned.
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02:54 It's been a productive morning. So we've done a Section 23 misuse of drugs act warrant in Kettley Bank today.
03:01 We've come to address, as you can see, there's approximately 50 to 60 mature plants.
03:07 We've got an estimated street value of 40 to 50,000 pounds and these look ready to go, ready to hit the streets.
03:14 What kind of message do you hope that this sends out to both the local community and people considering taking part in this type of crime?
03:22 I think for me it's visibility. There's a big issue about police visibility and we're out here. People can see us.
03:29 We're out in shopping centres, we're out in the estates, all times of the day.
03:35 Before we even came here today, the team were out at half five in the morning and we just arrested somebody else on a prison recall.
03:42 So whatever time it is, we are out making sure that we are tackling people who are committing crime.