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00:00So this is the entry to the cannabis factory. We actually had to dig up part of the road to make

00:10it safe, get the electricity board to come up and use JCBs to get to the power cables. The

00:17actual door you can see now is where we forced entry. It was actually connected to the electricity

00:21as a booby trap to either harm officers or other criminals coming to rob the factory. As we go in

00:29we can see electrical equipment, soil just discarded which have been used for previous

00:35grows. Living conditions you've got the toilet there with the water on the floor and electrical

00:39cables all over the place. Again a shower cubicle more toilets so it shows that people have been

00:44living in here for a little bit of time. There are multiple rooms like this you'll see in the video

00:50just containing cannabis plants at different levels of growth therefore giving a continuous crop.

00:59Again you can see wiring just all over the place. This is more the living area so you can see they've

01:05customised it, TVs, sofas, American Fritcheries. So it's been established for a little while and it's

01:10also the signs that there's multiple people or gardeners as we often call them living and working

01:16here. Often this can be slavery where they're forced to do it. It's unlikely in this factory that

01:24are being forced physically and being bolted and locked in which we've seen in other places

01:28as they could get out but equally it could be being made to do it under fear of violence or debt.

01:35Again here you can see some of the electrical works which are being made safe by UK Power but

01:40you can see it's just very very dangerous and open circuits.

01:46Some of the wiring you'll see on the floor in a minute is what was connected to the door.

01:50Luckily the officer's got devices to check to see if doors are booby trapped.

01:55You can see some of the thickness of the cable that was actually connected to the door handles

02:00to cause a very very serious injury.

02:06As we come in here you'll see a hole that's been dug by the

02:09criminals into the floor to get to the main power cable coming into the building.

02:15That's about 10 foot deep. You can just see top left hand corner the black cable which is about

02:22the thickness of a tennis ball. So you can see they've got to that to tap into it. Really really

02:26dangerous. It's not uncommon for these places to burn down. This room would have been a

02:33grow at some point. It's obviously been harvested and there's a few old plants left.

02:36As we walk through you'll see loads of empty boxes which is the lighting equipment and fans.

02:43These again just more rooms full of plants. I think there's about 20 rooms in total.

02:48This is some of the waste product from the chemicals and old soil. Here we've got younger plants.

03:03Again the waste product and old harvests. So for disposal they just leave it here over time.

03:27Old pots and soil. There's hundreds of old pots of soil now which would be for previous

03:32groves. Here you've got a ladder which they can they use an escape method. They've actually built

03:37this concrete wall or breeze block wall and they squeeze over a tiny breeze block size gap and punch

03:43through a plasterboard wall. Up to the second floor again you've got an internally built rooms.

03:52These plasterboard and wooden frame rooms have been built.

03:59Again sleeping accommodation.

04:03Very interesting wiring.

04:09This would have been a nursery or the start of a nursery. Very very small plants.

04:12This factory and others. The hunting and neighborhood team over the last couple of years have

04:25secured about 10 million pounds in cannabis. We've taken off criminals and we often recover the cash

04:30related to it via the proceeds of crime act as well. We're very very keen on that which means we

04:36can really invest the money into crime and community events.

04:51The factory was actually spotted by one of the neighborhood officers on foot patrol.

04:55Notice that some brand new CCTV cameras have gone up on a deserted building.

05:00Some really good police and the officer thought it was a bit strange and inquired a bit more.

05:04Heard what he believed was fans put two and two together and about 10 minutes later we were inside.

05:13Again you can just see wiring everywhere and when you see that wiring obviously it's mixed with water.

05:18It's just so so dangerous. It took the electricity board or UK power networks hours to make it safe

05:26and you know that's on top of having to dig up part of the road.

Police find 'booby trapped' cannabis factory is former store

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