BBC Look East: policing Norfolk's illegal raves

2008

A regional BBC news report on the police 'rave intelligence' operation used to shut unlicensed parties down, with officers justifying the budget on camera. It shows the enforcement machinery built by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 still running two decades after acid house. The free-party scene it targets is the direct descendant of the orbital M25 raves of 1988-89.