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Scotland Yard is examining plans to monitor the electricity power supply network in an effort to identify the location of industrial cannabis farms.
Police hope that spikes in electricity usage could lead them to addresses being used by organised crime gangs to run skunk farms.
More than 650 cannabis farms - which use high powered growing lamps - are raided by police in England and Wales every month. Last month police in Kingston-upon-Thames found a cannabis “forest” larger than a football pitch that was hidden in suburban wasteland.
The Met had hoped to put forward a scheme to monitor the electricity network last year but the project failed to get Home Office funding.
Now an anti-theft database is being launched by energy suppliers which could also be used by police forces to gather information about electricity usage.
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