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Avon and Somerset Police has re-launched a campaign to target cannabis factories across the force area.

Operation Viscount, which also ran last year, sees officers execute drugs warrants across the force area to clamp down on cannabis cultivation.

Last year between November 22 and December 17 they seized 2,500 plants worth nearly £2m.

The operation also ran for 12 weeks over the summer, with officers seizing cannabis worth more than six million pounds. They also arrested 68 people suspected of growing and selling the drug.

So far this month (September 2011) officers have seized plants worth nearly £1m and have made 15 arrests.

Drug strategy manager Paul Bunt, who is running Viscount, said: "We launched the operation to disrupt and dismantle this type of criminal activity and send out a clear message that the cultivation or supply of drugs will not be tolerated in the Avon and Somerset force area."

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