Crooks break into police station and sneak off with cannabis plants
It is not clear how many were stolen but each fully grown one is worth up to £900
CHEEKY crooks left police looking dopey by ransacking a cop shop – and stealing cannabis back.
The brazen thieves broke into a Merseyside Police station and swiped several plants.
It is not clear how many marijuana plants were stolen but each fully grown one is worth up to £900.
Other items to have been pilfered from police premises include 13 pedal bikes worth £7,650, two iPhones, an iPad and a £150 pair of Nike trainers.
While one red-faced officer was forced to explain how their flat cap was stolen from their police car.
The embarrassing revelations came to light during a Freedom of Information request to Merseyside Police asking for all the recorded items stolen from their buildings, including stations, custody suites headquarters and command centres, and vehicles since January 2015.
A source said: “It’s usually cops who go round nicking people not being nicked from.
“Whenever officers raid cannabis farms the plants will be seized as part of the investigation and they will be kept in secure storage rooms.
“So exactly how this opportunistic thief managed to walk out of a cop shop carrying several cannabis plants without being spotted is anyone’s guess.
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“He must be one of the stealthiest bandits around. It’s highly embarrassing for them to be targeted on their own turf.
“And no doubt the one poor PC who had to own up to their police flat cap being taken for their car would be left feeling sheepish.”
The hat was swiped from a vehicle in Sefton in 2015 while the plants went missing from a building in Liverpool the same year.
It is not the first time police stations have been targeted by criminals.
Last October two people were arrested after breaking into Camelford Police Station, Cornwall, and taking a marked patrol car for a 230-mile joyride.
The duo were eventually thwarted with a stinger device.
Gloucestershire Police were also forced to ramp up security when two men walked straight into an unlocked station and made off with items including a police car key.