It was remain updated at 00:08 on May 05 2008. Policeman yesterday seized cocaine with an estimated high road valuation of £15m in lone of the biggest pull in British history. Six men were arrested after the cocaine was discovered when two passenger car were searched at a UK port. The conveyance were targeted after a long-running issue beside Cumbrian and Lancashire constabulary working alongside HM Customs.

Officials said the commandeering was a breakthrough in the affray against narcotic smuggling. This is sole of the biggest mainland seizing at any point seen in the UK," a boys in blue account said. This is a larger breakthrough in the broil against trafficking of cocaine." Private investigator Manager Super intender Jeff Ashton, of Cumbria CID, refused to disclose how yet cocaine had been seized. He said the controversy was continuing, and a unit of top secret and line addresses in Lancashire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire were lifetime searched.

He declined to distinguish the harbour where the appropriation was unreal representing "operational reasons" nevertheless said the vehicles had been stopped and searched as they entered the UK from mainland Europe yesterday morning. He did answer that the port was elsewhere the Cumbrian area.

At this period I don't desire to claim extremely particular of how or where the confiscating took place," he said. This is in that six males enjoy been arrested and are in protection awaiting interview. There are and current functioning with approximately five other potency to hint others suspected of career involved. Confidential and game addresses across the UK are duration raided.

I am indeed pleased with the progress of this course and the actuality that we include prevented such a colossal sum of cocaine from reaching the road of Britain."

The impounding approaches two months after the UN warned that extensive drug traffickers are operating with essential impunity through rule across the earth were foible to justification the cartels.

According to the 127-page annual announcement from the UN's Universal Narcotics Clout Board, authority necessitate to fabricate better pains to flash-freeze the traffickers' assets, edit access to drug action towards order of the day and swell the radius of non-custodial judgement to hand championing convicted users.

The report said the surfacing of recent smuggling direction was a growing problem, with cocaine from South America continuance stockpiled and repackaged in west Africa earlier entering Europe. Liv St morgan spencer.

From http://guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/05/ukcrime.drugstrade