Three men have been arrested after officers prevented a potentially large-scale cannabis farm in Colchester.
Essex Police officers entered an industrial unit in Grange Way, on Sunday, acting on intelligence they had received.
Officers found large-scale lighting and heating apparatus in bags along with wooden mezzanines appeared to be under construction.
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Three Albanian men who were in the building at the time were arrested on suspicion of abstracting electricity and being concerned in the supply of a controlled drug.
Two of those arrested were wanted by the UK immigration authorities.
Sergeant Yari Foster said: “This is significant piece of preventative work from the Colchester Neighbourhood Policing Team.
“Established cannabis grows pose so many dangers to our communities, from the dangerous methods used to power them – usually through abstracted electricity – to the harm the drug itself causes.
“It is far from a victimless crime and very often is connected to wider criminality, such as serious violence and human trafficking.”
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