Cannabis Farms

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/007675/C

Version Date: 17/03/2025

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.

Data Processing:     

Crimes recorded on crime information system - NICHE                        

Cancelled crimes excluded, Non notifiable crimes excluded                                        

Qliksense Report: Crime and Outcomes                                                    

Filtered by date: January 1st 2023 to December 31st 2024                                               

Further filters applied:                                                        

Concerned in production of a controlled drug of Class B - cannabis (recordable)                                                   

Drug Seizure Data                                                    

2022/23, 2023/24 ad 2024/25 files                                                   

Filtered on seizure date 2023 and 2024                                                     

Filtered description on Cannabis Plant                                                    

Data Limitations:                                                     

Drug seizure data has been limited to the specification of "plant".                           

Any other preparations of cannabis have been excluded.                                        

Crime data has been limited to cannabis production, so will exclude offences relating to cannabinoid etc.                                                            

The number of cannabis farms your team seized in 2024.

Between January 1st and December 31st 2024, there were 71 seizures of cannabis plants.

There were also 87 crimes reocrded for cannabis production in 2024.

Please note, these figures are independent of each other. We are unable to identfy if these crimes related to a seizure.

The number of cannabis farms your team seized in 2023.

Between January 1st and December 31st 2023, there were 75 seizures of cannabis plants.

There were also 64 crimes reocrded for cannabis production in 2023.

Please note, these figures are independent of each other. We are unable to identfy if these crimes related to a seizure. The number of cannabis farms your team seized in 2023.

Please can we define cannabis farms as: 'any property that is being used for purpose to grow/cultivate cannabis plants, whether there is 1 plant or thousands of plants.'