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Police have issued a warning to landlords after a property was left badly damaged by an illegal cannabis grow.
The property, in Mason Street, Sutton, had been transformed into a multi-room drug factory in the short period since it was rented out.
PC Ryan Frew-McGill, of Nottinghamshire Police, has issued some advice following the discovery.
Full story here: https://www.chad.co.uk/news/crime/warning-to-landlords-after-sutton-home-damaged-by-cannabis-grow-4591014
Police have issued a warning to landlords after a property was left badly damaged by an illegal cannabis grow.
The property, in Mason Street, Sutton, had been transformed into a multi-room drug factory in the short period since it was rented out.
PC Ryan Frew-McGill, of Nottinghamshire Police, has issued some advice following the discovery.
Full story here: https://www.chad.co.uk/news/crime/warning-to-landlords-after-sutton-home-damaged-by-cannabis-grow-4591014
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00:00 My name is PC1728 Ryan Thirumgil and we're here today after reports of a cannabis grow.
00:06 We've seized 143 cannabis plants and the property itself, a semi-detached address,
00:11 has had all of the rooms converted, including a cellar, in order to cultivate cannabis.
00:15 Very dangerous, with cannabis grows comes a risk of fire because very often they'll bypass the
00:21 electric, which means they won't go through the meter, they'll bypass it somewhere else and into
00:25 the address, usually done by someone, a gardener or someone who might know a little bit about
00:31 electrics but not enough to keep themselves or the community safe. You know, terrace houses
00:36 especially, the adjoining properties, if one goes up, very often the other ones next door tend to
00:40 go up. After harvesting the cannabis plants we're dismantling all the equipment, so the extractor
00:45 fans, the carbon filters, the ballast packs and the lighting and all the heating equipment that's
00:53 used to cultivate these plants, but beyond use in order so it can't be recycled into another property.
00:58 Following this, myself and my team will make an application for closure order,
01:03 which means the address will be shut off to the landlord, well basically everyone other than the
01:09 emergency services, should there be an emergency at the address. This way we're able to work with
01:13 the landlord and able to educate them on how to properly tenant a property, do all their relevant
01:19 checks in order to prevent the reoccurrence of this in the future.