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Ferre
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 Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:53 am Post subject: Group puts out grow-op spotter's guide |
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Group puts out grow-op spotter's guide
By FRANK LANDRY, CITY HALL BUREAU
A group keen on busting marijuana grow ops wants you to narc on your neighbours.
The Edmonton Stop Marijuana Grow Ops Coalition yesterday released a brochure designed to help people spot potential pot factories.
The coalition - whose partners include city hall, cops, Capital Health and others - is asking Edmontonians to report suspected drug dens to police. "They don't have to know, or be 100% sure there's a grow-op," said Edmonton Det. Darren Derko, a member of the combined Edmonton Police Service and RCMP drug-busting Green Team. "All they're doing is reporting suspicious activity. From there police are going to have to conduct their own investigations."
Derko said the number of grow-ops in the city is on the rise, and the pot factories are increasingly being run by organized crime.
In 2002, Edmonton police seized $14 million worth of pot plants. That ballooned to $31 million last year, according to police figures.
Despite the jump, Derko estimated cops are shutting down only 5% of grow-ops.
RCMP Cpl. Lorne Adamitz, also with the Green Team, said the drug dens can create fire and health hazards, and excessive moisture from the operations can cause significant structural damage and create huge mould problems.
"The biggest trend that disturbs me ... is that individuals flip these grow houses as a means to avoid detection," Adamitz said. "If I come along and wish to purchase a house, I'm totally blind to what activities have occurred there."
Some 350,000 brochures were printed at a cost of $10,000. The Edmonton Real Estate Board, another member of the coalition, is picking up the tab.
The fold-out document outlines ways to spot homes that may be housing a grow-op. Clues include covered windows, heavy condensation on windows, the sound of electrical generators or fans, lights much brighter normal, "skunky" smells and "unusual" traffic at odd times of the day or night.
The brochure will be included in utility bills and is also being distributed through the Edmonton Police Service, Capital Health and other organizations.
Anyone with a tip on a potential grow-op is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
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| Anyone with a tip on a potential grow-op is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. |
Well I do but i'm not about to call....lol!
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Could become a new hobby! Grow-op Spotting!
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indicaspice
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Man it doesn't take much in my neighborhood...lol! Sit outside on a nice day or walk past a house and the smell is enough to get to you....lol
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Jackie
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we've had the same thing happen here,and not only the cops,but housingcorporations spreading 3pagecoloredfolders among their tenants actively encouraging people to rapport to them.boy,it really sucks if anyone in your neighbourhood doesn't like ya....
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indicaspice
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That's why we try and stay as unobtrusive as possible. Be civil to the neighbors but don't be friends with them if you know what I mean. Now though I can tell my neighbors to bugger off as our growing days are over....lol!
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oh come on brothers and sisters
this technique worked so well for hitler and stalin , you could hardly expect the new fascists in town NOT to use it.
wouldn't it be funny if everybody picked ten names of people who were NOT growing cannabis and gave their number crime stoppers ?
they would waste millions plodding around investigating the wrong people until the whole programe collapsed.
might i recomend people like politicians and councilors , police , journalists , lawyers , mayors , the rich , all the families of the above and any over officious wannabe fascist etc ... etc ...
rumour has it that when my housing association tried a scheme like that all the names they got were people who were vehemently opposed to cannabis use.not one was a genuine cannabis user.they are still paying compansation claims.it cost them hundreds of thousands of pounds.shame.
the scheme recently collapsed and was swept under the carpet without any of the press fanfare that accompanied its introduction.
of course i would never condone such behaviour as wasting police time - nah i am lying - i think it is a great idea! much better than encouraging people to police each other.
much better than living in a police state.
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