DCS John Smith, head of Drugs Squad, Scotland Yard, London

Sep. 09, 1979 - Drugs find in garage fortified like a bank': The total amount of high quality cannabis resin seized during the Operation Cyril raids in London and Cornwall on Monday, its street sale value would be about 10 million. The London one was found in a garage in Station Road, Penge, which Chief Supt. John Smith, head of Scotland Yards Drugs Squad described as fortified almost as well as the Bank of England'. The garage's windows were bricked up and the heavy wooden doors were steel-lined and secured with double padlocks. The first 2 1/4 ton haul of cannabis was seized during an early morning operation near Polperro, Cornwall, in which customs cutters chased a converted motor fishing vessel, Guiding Lights, out to sea before arresting it. The equal quantities of cannabis found in London and Cornwall suggest it was the regular load brought in by the 63-ton Guiding Lights. Packets of cannabis found in both raids were wrapped in decorative paper. Photo shows Det. Chief Supt. John Smith, head of Scotland Yard's Drug Squad, during a press conference about the big drugs finds in London and Cornwall

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