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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. l arrived at the junction to see a very large number of people, now upto 200 walking
with purpose towards officers stood in the road. Suddenly objects began to get thrown from the crowd towards
police. I saw traffic cones, cone lights, bottles and stones begLn to land near Officers so thc1t they had to quickly
move out of the way. I again heard phrases similar to "stonn them". Fearing imminent violence I drew and

extended my baton as did my colleagues. I could bear 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
stand off for some time but the group eventually got onto trains and left the area. I was informed by another unit

that Mr Cordell had also left with his equipment: I tasked ai:nving TSG with local reassurance patrols but shortly
after they started J was advised that most of the group were wandering around near to Ponders End. I tasked TSG
with following this group and was infonned by their Inspector that their unmarked un.it had overheard talk that the
rave was now going to be Soulh West of the o_riginal 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 1 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.

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