@oikroitnik 439848 wrote:
I ran to the back to 1 copper standing quite as amouse and guys trying to push that section of “wall” over
Coppers get scared too… knowing how hostile some ravers can be and having a fire (and peoples safety) to deal with. as first on scene he would also be personally responsible for making sure the Fire Brigade knew the exact location. he may well have been trying to remember which buttons to press on his Airwave radio to get the GPS reading or map on the screen, and/or make sure his control room and Fire Brigade had picked it up. Still has to be done in the old way via voice and he would have to wait for confirmation (either via voice or a message on the radio screen) as the digital link between the Fire Brigade and other blue light services got cancelled last year because they ran out of money!
Getting into an argument with ravers wouldn’t have been helpful at that point. It is because of GPS kit that the Fire Brigade got there quickly, not any conspiracies. And if their control room is told that a straw building with people in it has caught on fire the Brigade turn up as quickly as they can, which isn’t a bad thing..
From my experience of that big rave in July 2007 what got busted (and for which my friends ended up in jug) and some info I found out via the FOI releases on the Suffolk Constabulary site, the reason they don’t let people out to leave is they kettle them until they get the ANPR unit in and then store all the numberplate details in a big database, many other constabularies do this as well.
People what regularly drive to and from raves often then get randomly stopped by cops and the vehicle searched midweek (this can happen weeks or months later) and they also get turned over for DUI or other motoring offences they can find.
This happened to a friend in SE England who lost his license for a few months and the cops said that on the screen it flashes up “KNOWN RAVE UNIT” whenever he goes past a traffic police car and they knew he was one of the drivers for a local rave crew. They had even indexed both a van he used and his smaller saloon car!
BTW this monitoring happens in the whole country, not just East Anglia but if people drive carefully and aren’t involved in other crimes they are more or less left alone.
