{"id":25633,"date":"2023-07-06T07:05:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=25633"},"modified":"2023-07-06T07:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:05:33","slug":"130m-worth-of-cannabis-636000-of-cash-and-20-guns-seized-in-uk-wide-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/07\/06\/130m-worth-of-cannabis-636000-of-cash-and-20-guns-seized-in-uk-wide-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3130m worth of cannabis, \u00a3636,000 of cash and 20 guns seized in UK-wide crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have seized up to \u00a3130m worth of cannabis as part of a nationwide crackdown, described as the “most significant” operation of its kind in UK law enforcement history.<\/p>\n

Officers discovered more than 180,000 cannabis plants during the series of co-ordinated raids, aimed at unearthing and disrupting organised crime groups (OCGs) across\u00a0England<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Wales<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police also discovered 20 firearms, \u00a31m worth of cocaine and \u00a3636,000 in cash in relation to the month-long crackdown, which took place across June.<\/p>\n

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Steve Jupp, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for Serious and Organised Crime, said the operation had “successfully disrupted a significant amount of criminal activity”.<\/p>\n

“We know that organised networks involved in cannabis production are also directly linked to an array of other serious criminality such as class A drug importation, modern slavery and wider violence and exploitation,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The intelligence gathered will also help inform future law enforcement activity across the country.”<\/p>\n

Named Operation Mille, the crackdown involved officers co-ordinating a thousand search warrants last month.<\/p>\n

Police say searches and arrests were made in all counties in England and Wales.<\/p>\n

Alongside local police forces and Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCU), the operation involved officers from the National Crime Agency and Immigration Enforcement.<\/p>\n

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Officers seized \u00a3636,000 in cash<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The aim of the operation was to disrupt OCGs by taking out a key source of their revenue, while also apprehending many of those involved.<\/p>\n

A total of 967 people were arrested for offences including cannabis cultivation, money laundering and weapons offences, of which more than 450 people have since been charged.<\/p>\n

Mr Jupp said: “Cannabis-related crime is often thought to be ‘low level’, however there are clear patterns around the exploitation and violence OCGs are using to protect their enterprises.<\/p>\n

“We also frequently find that cannabis production is just one aspect of their criminal operations and that they are complicit in wider offending which blights our communities.<\/p>\n

“We’ve not only been able to disrupt the criminal operations of a significant number of organised crime groups, but also increased our understanding of their other criminal activities.”<\/p>\n

Source: \u00a0\"Sky<\/a> news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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