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BBC News – Police seize rave sound equipment at Suffolk forest

Police seized sound equipment during a rave believed to have been attended by up to 200 people at a forest in Suffolk.

The force helicopter was scrambled and officers sent to block off routes into Rendlesham Forest overnight on Friday.

They also liaised with people at the site to bring the event to a close.

When this failed to stop the noise, which had prompted complaints from nearby residents, police seized the equipment at 0400 BST.

There is an ongoing investigation into the incident, a police spokeswoman said.

An officer on patrol was alerted to the event after coming across youths who said they were going to a party at the forest.

@joshd96320 388598 wrote:

a friday night caribbean club nite was cancelled by popo

I thought that place had had its license revoked (for music and dancing) after the shooting, and all that was allowed there was dominoes etc and stuff for the elderly (a West Indian girl I work with said her nan still goes there in the mornings)

Someone else told me that private ticket only events were occasionally happening, but even then cops always have the discretion to stop these events happening.

In which case I agree the cops should have been more decisive rather than leading people on until the last minute – people in EA are known to be stubborn so of course it would lead to people trying a illegal event, but they’ve still got a large amount of taxpayers money to play with and unfortunately most of society behind them…

FFS people have got google earth, satnavs and as much gadgets as cops have. A big map of the forest only costs £7 from a bookshop. the track numbers aren’t on it but the tracks are..

@damo666 388632 wrote:

They cancelled the event at the carribbean club because lack of police man power due to the football being on. Managed to get enough to fill 4 riot vans up all suited and booted though. [/quote]

unfortunately thanks to the Londonistan rude boys the events would be classed as “high risk” :hopeless: – even so there’s always 4 riot vans worth of cops around Suffolk (and most other areas) just in case the townie venues kick off, or there’s a domestic on a estate, whether or not there is football – Suffolk gets as much extra money for cops as London but there aren’t any terrorists so it is used against “anti social behaviour”.

also many of todays footy fans aren’t as “hardcore” (in both senses of the word as they used to be ), most of them get pissed and go home and go to bed after the match and don’t hang around the streets so the cops are “spare” by the time all the townie venues are closed (hence why they turned up at 04:00).

in the old days they’d come to the rave but behave themselves (at the raves I at in the 1990s/2000s if peopel argued about footy they’d just get the piss took out of them by hippies :laugh_at: and thus any trouble was swiftly defused.)

I’m not that much into football but TBH If I’d been watching the England match I’d want a rave afterwards to take my mind off the misery!