Party Vibe

just had a look at the parish council website. they mentioned they were hunting down a stray dog, and had also made a local resident take down a “illegal notice” from their own land. As if this bunch of local yokels are going to tolerate a rave in their area without dobbing it in!

And sadly once thats happened the cops are obliged to act, they’ve had multiple complaints across the region for not doing enough in the past to stop raves..

at the last few parties in EA my mates have been to they have checked nearly every vehicle. Bear in mind that the lead units are usually RPU (traffic police) who have ANPR (numberplate scan equipment). From this they can find out who owns the car, whether they are regulars at raves, check with CID etc if they might be dealing drugs. They can also input the VRM’s of new ravers vehicles on the system to investigate later.

They first started doing this in July 2007 at that Suffolk rave what got busted hard, in fact the amount of ANPR scans crashed their system, cops didn’t give up but stopped everyone from leaving until the system was back up! (this is mentioned in a general information paper released under FOI later that year.

They are now also definitely checking for traffic offences and low level drugs offences. In some cases they carry on during the early week (as rave drivers could be driving around sleep deprived or even DUI through cannabis or alcohol). a few friends of mine in both TVP and EA have lost their licenses this way! Cops have even said to them “we know you go to raves”

To be fair good drivers who are slightly older, have normal jobs and not involved directly in raves or associated crime get left alone a bit more, but the feds have been well on top of the EA scene since a younger more stubborn crowd (many of whom are NEETS yet can repeatedly afford to replace confiscated rigs – suspicious!) took over the party scene from around 2005.

both. car has a registered owner, this name can be scanned on PNC (police national computer) and LIO (local intelligence office) to find out if the owner or even associates/passengers are wanted.

Heddlu have a lot of flash kit for surveillance and comms as it is all made there in Wales by a company called cleartone. It is one of the few remaining mostly all-British electronics companies.

Some of our surveillance kit in the UK is so good the Chinese buy it for their feds!

it depends on the constabulary. Airwave (the new digital radios) is good for secure voice but not so good for data (it is too slow). Some areas do have mobile data terminals which use 3g mobile broadband but this of course only works in regions where the service exists.

Human rights laws worldwide are overridden by drugs laws and this is accepted at both EU and UN level… that won’t change until or if wider society tolerates recreational drug use. at the moment drug users are simply a minority and their activities viewed as criminal.