How many cannabis factories have been discovered by the police in each year since 1999, broken down by police force.

The Scottish Executive does notcollect information about the number of police operations that have discovered cannabisfactories.
The Scottish Executive does collectdrug seizure data from the eight police forces within Scotland andthese data do contain information about seizures that have recovered cannabis plants.In most cases it is known many cannabis plants were recovered in each seizure operation.However, specific details about size of plants, how the plants were being grown,whether they were grown for the purpose of sale etc are not known.
Presented are the number of cannabisplants recovered in drug seizures broken down by the corresponding police forcesfrom year 1999.
The number of plants from Centralwas not available over the period. Where plants were recovered in Central, the plantswere “weighed” and not counted. This means that plants could not be distinguishedfrom cannabis in herbal form in the statistics. This matter has now been rectifiedand Central will be able to produce figures in relation to the number of plantsrecovered in the future.
1999-2000
Police Force
| Number of Cannabis Plants Seized
| Total

1 to 5
| 6 to 10
| 11 to 25
| 26 to 50
| more than 50

Central
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-

Dumfries and Galloway
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 1

Fife
| 6
| 2
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 9

Grampian
| 5
| 2
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 9

Lothian and Borders
| 21
| 12
| 3
| 3
| 0
| 39

Northern
| 7
| 0
| 2
| 1
| 0
| 10

Strathclyde
| 8
| 2