THREE and a half tonnes of drugs worth £25million have been seized by police in the past three months.

Millions of pounds in laundered cash was recovered and 77 people were arrested in a focus on disrupting serious organised crime.

The figures, published by the Scottish Police Authority yesterday, also reveal that in July four people from Glasgow were sentenced to a total of 32 years in prison after being found guilty of being involved in serious organised crime.

Operation Shoreditch targeted an international crime group, based in the west of Scotland, alleged to have been involved in laundering millions of pounds of cash.

A total of 11 men have been arrested and charged in connection with the find and reported to the procurator fiscal.

More than 20 people from across Glasgow and Lanarkshire were arrested and charged after heroin with a street value of almost £1.5m was recovered as part of Operation Demolish.

Another operation in Glasgow, Operation Track, resulted in 46 people being arrested, with officers also seizing £280,000 of cash and drugs including heroin, cocaine and cannabis.