On Friday, we sent an email out about a planned car meet in Peterborough, prompting a dispersal order to be put in place across the whole of the county.
Dedicated patrols were put in place on Saturday evening, with officers being dispatched to two small gatherings.
The first was at about 7pm with about 15 vehicles at Pleasure Fair Meadow Car Park off Oundle Road in Peterborough. No issues of anti-social behaviour were identified and those in attendance were engaged with in a positive manner. However, CCTV operators reported one vehicle doing doughnuts in the car park, officers located the vehicle at the Esso garage in Bourges Boulevard and seized it for having no insurance.
Enquiries including reviewing CCTV footage to confirm any offences in relation to the anti-social behaviour are ongoing.
We received a report at about 10.30pm of about a dozen cars racing and drifting around roundabouts near the A1M junction at Sawtry. Two vehicles and their drivers were given dispersal orders to leave the area.
We received information that the organiser of the initial event that was planned for Saturday evening was planning another event for Sunday evening, which was a breach of the Community Protection Warning (CPW) issued to him earlier in the week which had conditions to cancel Saturday’s event and not plan any other events on private land without the landowner’s permission.
As planning of a second event was in breach of the warning, a Community Protection Notice (CPN) was issued, again to cancel the event and not plan any further events.
Information about vehicle nuisance or anti-social driving can be passed to us via our Vehicle nuisance involving cars, bikes and mopeds | Cambridgeshire Constabulary (cambs.police.uk) https://www.cambs.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/asb/asb/antisocial-behaviour/vehicle-nuisance-involving-cars-bikes-and-mopeds/
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Lauren Alexander
(Police, Senior Communications Officer, Peterborough and Fenland