Community buy-in leads to closure of City West cannabis farms

City West officers have had a double success after shutting down two cannabis farms.

The neighbourhood team swooped in to break up the two household grows – thanks to the actions of the public.

Community intelligence enabled officers to take action on both occasions, with more than 350 plants found and dismantled as a result.

Aided by calls from the public, the City West team attended Wigman Road, Bilborough, on Thursday (12 December) – forcing entry when nobody answered the door.

While executing the warrant, at approximately 8.40am, officers located 209 cannabis plants lined up in rows across several growing areas inside the house.

The electrics were found to have been tampered with to power the grow, with the cannabis dismantling team helping remove all the Class B drugs from the address.

This came just a few days after the same teams combined to shut down a separate grow in Arleston Drive, Wollaton, on the morning of 6 December.

After receiving concerns about the property potentially being used to harbour drugs, police forced their way inside and immediately spotted the electricity was being bypassed.

This was with the intention of powering the cannabis grows inside the house – with more than 140 plants discovered and removed from the address.

All the equipment used to facilitate the two separate grows were also taken out of commission by officers.

Sergeant Darran Owen, of Nottinghamshire Police, said:

“Both these raids wouldn’t have been possible without the buy-in from the community, who reported concerns about them to us.

“We’d like to thank the public for doing this and would urge anyone with information about drugs production in their area to contact us on 101.

“As we’ve shown in these two separate incidents – which we don’t believe to be linked in any way – we will take action.

“Household-based cannabis grows like these two cannot be allowed to happen, for the very simple reason they put all those around them at serious risk of harm.

“Anyone with first-hand experience of these grows or who has seen the modifications made to electrics to power them will be able to testify just how dangerous they are, due to the fire hazard they pose to neighbouring properties.

“It’s for this reason and the wider trouble they bring to communities why so much effort goes into tracking these grows down and shutting them down too.”