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the sheep are just ravers, they like hardstyle. When I went to a similar tek a few years back they were all looking over the biggest hardstyle rig!

they must have. they’ve only got so many tow trucks and space in the property store so would have used them to target certain folk. bear in mind the digital info from the heli can be transmitted to a central unit within seconds these days, as well as looking up reg plates and sending data to the units on the ground, its like a secure form of mobile broadband.

i’ve been told by former ravers who joined the OB a few years back that the serious/organised crime units are increasingly used to check up on illegal raves due to the level of drug dealing associated with them (this also ties in with cops’ recent press releases and the ranks of the cops tasked to investigate raves)

@joshd96320 386984 wrote:

GL – do you think they were more bias to confiscating rigs that police have evidence of funding via sales of drugs?

yep.

they don’t need to do loads of detective work either, they can go on “soft evidence” such as what people say on here and particularly facebook and bebo as cops can get into the private areas more easily, especially bebo as there are many people <18 years old and they can claim its child protection work.

too many younger folk (not sensible people like yourself and your friends) do stupid things like brag about how they bought £1000 of tunes when they don’t even have a job., and how they have loads of kit they can replace after it gets confiscated. And others seem to have “interesting” “friends” who are older than me, big scarely looking dudes and not their dads or uncles either. Not rocket science to work out where the cash comes from, especially in a recession when its hard for young people to get jobs..

@1984 386796 wrote:

they had the old helicopter come over twice and a spotter plane when I was there.

planespotters around EGFE (Haverford West ) report this

Haverfordwest Airport Movements:

Police12 G-DPPF A109 heading East to Pembrey after responding to the illegal rave at Dale, 1135, heading back to Dale at 1311, left the area 1349

http://www.egfemovements.co.uk/2010/05/31/movements-for-1st-june-2010/

the last one is of course Dyfed Powys Helicopter (Police12 is the VHF radio call sign)

although “G-GMKD” is a Robin 400 usually kept at nearby Cardiff, its red black and white and the call-letters are very obvious, wouldn’t have thought its ID would be unclear with a “?”

perhaps it was “G-GMPB“??? this is silver fuselage with black call letters and is a specialist fixed wing surveillance aircraft used by GMP.. (BN Defender 4000) – if you didn’t have good bins and was at a high flight level it would be easy to misidentify the last two letters..

heres a photo of it in flight. Not the easiest thing to get a clear ID on (well it is a surveillance aircraft after all! :wink:)

even if it was the Robin (and it would be strange for 4 experienced spotters to misidentify a common aircraft) it could still have camera kit, and all these small aircraft usually have the same GPS equipment the coppers have..