Festival organisers team up with police to fight thefts

Two of the biggest organisations in the pop festival industry are working closer with police to reduce the growing level of theft at festival venues.

Last year's Glastonbury festival saw reported thefts double to nearly 800, and thefts from tents is fast approaching epidemic proportions. Now some of the industry's biggest fesitval promoters are working with police to address the problem.

Various festival organisers and local police forces have increaingly worked together and this year is the first co-ordinated national crackdown on festival crime.  According to Melvin Benn of Festival Republic, which promotes nine of the country's biggest live music events, it is often the same individuals involved, but "the problem was that there weren't enough conversations between the security teams of the different festivals to identify who they were in advance."

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