Police in distress, criminal groups change strategy for planting cannabis

Police leaders believe criminal groups this year will try to use closed facilities to cultivate cannabis.

So for this reason, Police General Command Ardi Veliu has ordered the 12 district directors to control any high risk environment for weed cultivation.

Depo, tunnels, or large hosts, are the mains suspected of being turned into closed greenhouses. Police groups are exercising control in the greenhouses, warehouses, former military bars and abandoned buildings and dwellings. Because of the control of the territory and the difficulty of planting on open ground, farming in closed environments is viewed as the only way to carry on. For inspection of measures in every district, Veliu has delegated to each director from a department director from the general directorate.

During 2017, police discovered dozens of cannabis - producing labs, some of which had advanced light and technology. The most obvious case was near the airport “Mother Teresa”, but also in the area of Shkoza in the capital.