Didn’t realise they had done this before. It does make sense to do that but i have never known police to use this tactic before now. I wonder what provoked them to do it. And which police force instigated it. My guess is Operation Pell in the south west who probably heard/thought that the party could have been an alternative Glastonbury event.
NB: Thread moved to free parties section and stuck as its quite important
definitely seems like an op pell sort of thing…..
its usually the bumpkin areas which bother with this as they have the spare time/resources and high-tech crime units, (Wiltshire actually arrested some people for trolling a messageboard!)
the cop ringing you up was probably just a cock-up because one force didn’t tell the other they had already done the surveillance op and had the line disconnected.
in the 80s the head of CND (peace campaigners) Bruce Kent was woken by his home phone ringing at an odd hour (a long ring as if it was being rung from a manual switchboard) – and when he picked it up on the other end was a very sheepish Detective Inspector; BT had crosswired all the surveillance equipment at the exchange so when the DI picked up his desk phone it rang the target instead of being covertly monitored :lol_teeth
more recently in Germany, Deutsche Telekom cocked up with the billing and sent some drug dealers mobile bills with an extra change for tapping the lines (which should have gone on the phone bill for the Police station!)
