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group were becoming more hostile towards officers
despite there being no music now and being informed of
the closure. A short while later officers I had positioned at
the junction radioed that there was now an even bigger
crowd advancing on them. 1 arrived at the junction to see
a very large number of people, now up to 200 walking
with purpose towards officers stood in the road, suddenly
objects began to get thrown from the crowd towards
police. 1 saw traffic cones, cone lights, bottles and stones
begin to land near Officers so that they had to quickly
move out of the way. I again heard phrases similar to
“storm them”. Fearing imminent violence, I drew and
extended my baton as did my colleagues. 1 could hear
shouts of “get back” but the crowd continued to throw
items, some of which were landing on cars that had been
temporarily stopped due to the group. We had been joined
by two dog units who took the lead in dispersing the
crowd. At this point there were two arrests to my left and
along with the dogs this seemed to make the crowd
withdraw. I told my officers and the dogs not to follow
the crowd as they were now by the train station with
nowhere to go as the barriers were down. There was a
tense standoff for some time, but the group eventually got
onto trains and left the area. 1 was informed by another
unit that Mr Cordell had also left, with his equipment. 1
tasked arriving TSG with local reassurance patrols but
shortly after they started, I was advised that most of the
group were wandering around near to Ponders End. I
tasked TSG with following this group and was informed
by their Inspector that their unmarked unit had overheard
talk that the rave was now going to be South West of the
original location. I was aware that TSG subsequently saw
Simon Cordell by the Crown lane Industrial Estate where
he has held a rave before and had stopped the group from
forcibly breaking into this location. Finally, after close to
three hours later, the group dispersed, and I was informed
that social media was indicating the rave would now be
Epping Forest. The whole incident took a vast number of
resources to police and there were two arrests for drugs
possession and two for drunk and disorderly behaviour.
One officer was injured with a deep cut to his elbow
requiring first aid by the Police FME and emergency calls
whilst answered were subject to delay.