Agency co-operation against ticket touts during Leeds Festival 2011

Officers from a number of different agencies joined forces with Leeds Festival organisers once again this year to form a “Multi agency tout response vehicle”. The vehicle toured the roads around the festival site at Bramham Park during the event which took place over the bank holiday weekend in August.
 
Code named “Operation Beryllium” this is the second year that the operation, which is financed by organisers Festival Republic, has run and once again it proved a huge success in disrupting the activities of ticket touts. In a minibus provided by Leeds Festival, officers and evidence gathering staff from West Yorkshire Police, Leeds City Council Highways Enforcement, West Yorkshire Trading Standards and Leeds Festival ticketing staff toured the roads around the festival site. They stopped and interviewed all touts and were able to issue two cease trading orders to individuals who refused to leave when requested. Trading on the highway is not permitted in Leeds without the consent of Leeds City Council.