Inside 500-plant country house cannabis farm discovered in quiet village near Northampton

Inside a 500-plant country house cannabis farm discovered in quiet Northamptonshire village.Credit: Northants Police

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00:00I'm PC Partridge, I'm part of the Neighbourhood Policing team for South North Ants.

00:05We're here today at an address in Harpole near Northampton where we have executed a

00:10Section 23 Misuse of Drugs Act warrant in relation to cannabis cultivation and production in the

00:17property behind me. Prior to today we've received a number of pieces of intelligence in relation to

00:23this property and that it may have been used to grow cannabis. That's something which obviously

00:31we have obviously then developed and then have been able to apply to the Magistrates Court who

00:35have granted us obviously a warrant to enter and search these premises. Once we've executed the

00:41warrant we have found approximately 500 cannabis plants. We've currently got one male in custody

00:46already in Northampton. Following on from today this will then turn into a much

00:50longer term investigation looking at those who have been involved in not only setting up

00:58this cannabis farm but also who has obviously benefited it from well in terms of making money

01:04off it. A lot of the time with these grows that people are being forced into growing these

01:12plants, often trafficked into the country, living in really poor conditions. We'd encourage anyone

01:18with any information on cannabis grows in their area to contact us. You can do that anonymously

01:25through Crimestoppers. That one strand of intelligence we will then pick up and we

01:31can then obviously then take it from there and develop that into executing a warrant.