POLICE swooped on a caravan site in Kingswinford today (Tuesday November 27) and seized around cannabis plants.

Nearly 30 officers were involved in the dawn raid at the Oak Lane caravan park where the drugs with an estimated street value of £16,000 were recovered and two people were arrested.

An old Somerfield van and a large metal container on the site had been converted into artificial greenhouses in which the tropical plants were being grown under heat lamps.

A 50-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of producing a controlled drug and were today being questioned by detectives at a police station in the West Midlands.

Superintendent Andy Parsons, head of local policing for Dudley, said: "Today's operation is the culmination of months of work.

"An operation was launched following concerns that people were farming cannabis and that dealing was operating from the site and we were determined to take action.

"We have been collating information which led us to believe that drug dealing was happening on this site and was being managed by a small minority of its residents.

"Drugs ruin communities and affect lives and we wanted to make sure the residents who live on the site can do so without the fear of this type of criminality taking place.”

Suspicions about the site were confirmed when aerial shots taken earlier this month by the National Police Air Service pinpointed a series of unusual heat sources.

Anyone with information on drug crime in their neighbourhood can call police on 101 or contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.