Police working to keep festival goers safe at Creamfields 2021

The UK’s biggest dance music festival, Creamfields 2021, is taking place in Daresbury over the Bank Holiday Weekend, and Cheshire Constabulary is working alongside organisers to ensure that everyone attending stays safe.

Around 70,000 music fans are expected at the annual event, which is returning to the area for the 16^th time from Thursday 26 to Monday 30th August.

Policing the festival is a considerable undertaking for the force and during the festival; officers will be supporting Creamfields event and security staff and providing a visible presence to prevent incidents of crime and disorder. Offsite and in the lead up to the event they will be policing in the surrounding areas and ensuring people arriving at and leaving the festival do so with minimal disruption.

Superintendent Simon Parsonage is leading the policing operation for the event. He said: “We will be working during the event to ensure that everyone coming to the area for this festival understands that crime and disorder of any kind will not be tolerated.

“As always our main priorities are to ensure that everyone at Creamfields enjoys the event safely and knows what to do in an emergency, but we also want to help minimise the disruption for the local community.”

Event security will be as tight as ever both, inside the festival grounds and around the festival site in Daresbury, and there will also be teams of officers who will be working throughout the course of the weekend to deal with any incidents that require a policing response.

Superintendent Parsonage added: “The event will again have drugs dogs working at entrance points.

“Various other security measures will be in place and all festivalgoers will be searched prior to being granted entry.

“They will have the opportunity to deposit any prohibited items in surrender bins placed at the entrances. Anyone who is subsequently found in possession of such items, having not placed them into the bins, will be arrested and face the consequences of their actions.

“My advice to anyone considering taking weapons or drugs into the event is don’t, because you will get caught.”

To report a non-emergency incident at Creamfields visit www.cheshire.police.uk or call 101. In an emergency always dial 999.

For more information about this year’s Creamfields festival visit www.creamfields.com or follow @CreamfieldsCops on Facebook and Twitter.