POLICE found a cannabis factory when they raided a house in Devizes. Officers executed a warrant at a house in Roseland Avenue on Tuesday morning following information received from the public.

They forced open a door to a shed in the back garden and found six cannabis plants, lamps and fans.

A 40-year-old man was arrested and subsequently charged with the cultivation of cannabis. He will appear in court at Devizes next month.

PC Adam Hall, who leads the Devizes neighbourhood policing team, was one of three officers who executed the warrant with PC Matt Fox and police community support officer Fiona Marno.

PC Hall said: "We found a small factory of cannabis cultivation and six fully mature cannabis plants, between 18 inches and two feet tall. Inside the shed were large lamps and fans which we seized. We estimate the street value of the cannabis to be about £300."

PC Hall said the raid was put together after the police received information last week.

He said: "It's good that the public can see action has been taken and it will send out a message to drug users and drug dealers in the town.

"Tackling drugs is an ongoing operation for the police and we act upon information received."

PC Hall said this latest drugs raid followed on from two other seizures in recent months.

Last month one gram of heroin was seized in a police raid on a flat in Victoria Road, Devizes.

As a result a 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing a Class A drug.

In April this year a 17-year-old youth was charged with possession of cannabis after police found a quantity of cannabis at another house in Roseland Avenue.

To contact the neighbourhood policing team at Devizes call 0845 408 7000 extension 737817.