Officers have seized cannabis plants with a potential street value of more than $9.5 million in the latest round of the NSW Police Force’s Cannabis Eradication Program.
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State Crime Command’s Drug Squad officers raided crop sites in bushland within the New England Local Area Command between Monday and Thursday.
Areas targeted included Tenterfield, Deep Water, Gibraltar Range National Park, Red Range, Dundee and Glen Innes.
Local police and the NSW Police Air Wing helped out the Drug Squad detectives.
Throughout the week, officers seized 4860 cannabis plants, worth an estimated $9.7 million.
This week’s operation will ended on Friday when all the seized plants were be to destroyed.
The CEP has been running since the mid-1980s and, to date, has prevented cannabis with an estimated potential street value of more than $250 million reaching NSW streets.
The program is generally operational during cannabis-growing season, which stretches from the late spring through summer and into early autumn.
