Ketamine worth millions has been taken off UK streets after officers stopped a van that was found to be filled with sacks of the drug.

Officers from Merseyside Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) – a team of investigators from the National Crime Agency and Merseyside Police – with the assistance of Merseyside Police Matrix Disruption Team, who tackle high-risk organised crime in the county, intercepted the van on the East Lancashire Road in Merseyside yesterday afternoon [16 September].

In the back of the vehicle the officers found 35 sacks filled with approximately 875kg of ketamine – worth an estimated £17m on UK streets.

A 46-year-old man from Liverpool, who was driving the van, was arrested and taken into custody to be questioned.

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