The jury in the trial of a Sussex businessman and a CID officer accused of setting up a drugs factory has seen and heard evidence from a police surveillance operation.
The group was watched as it allegedly established a scheme to cultivate cannabis in an industrial unit, Bournemouth Crown Court heard.
Police carried out hours of video surveillance as members visited the unit and tapped a CID telephone used by detective Michael Newson.
The prosecution alleges that Newson, 38, of Poole, Dorset, was the "eyes and ears" of a scheme to cultivate cannabis in the rented unit, which was fitted with specialist lighting and watering systems.
His co-defendant David Miles, 42, of Blackboys, near Uckfield, allegedly provided the money to set up the factory.
Both men deny conspiring to produce and supply cannabis between April 1999 and April 2000.
The case continues.
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