Police are increasing their workforces before the weekend’s Findings Festival – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Today, for the second consecutive year, opens its doors to electronica festival Findings Festival at Bislett.

NRK reported last year that the festival got scolded for logistics during the event.

Some festival participants were unhappy with how Findings had tackled køproblematikken, and there were reports of long waiting through the entrance to the toilet and bar.

Lover less line for years

Martin Nielsen in Live Nation, which hosts Findings Festival, assure the public that there will be better this year.

– We have received shut off half the Bislett street to get two separate queuing systems . This year we also have far more toilets than last year, so that the public can go so much do as they please, says Nielsen.

Instead of card terminals and cash, has Findings adopted Cashless in bars – a system where you fill money on a card and put straight on a reader for payment.

Other Norwegian festivals, as Hove, has also used the system.

– The problem last year was not the bars themselves, but rather that it took so long to pay. In addition to introducing this payment this year, the bars have been between 25 and 30 percent larger.

Sets massed

Findings festival Kickstarter summer festivals, and the program got dice four of Dagbladet’s music department.

Nielsen believes to remember that last year there were major concerns about drug use on festival site, but that it was not a problem.

A hot topic during last year’s festival was drug abuse at the festival, but Nielsen recalls not think anyone was taken.

– We’re not allowed to go through the pockets of the people, but we are checking bags and perform body searches, as is done in other events. Staff will also walk around and make sure no one is high, not to mention overberuset on alcohol, he said.

Nielsen says Findings sets massed both security guards and police.

Increased police emergency

According Tore Soldal, station commander at the police in Oslo, there were several reports in the last year from disgruntled policemen due to drug abuse and trouble.

– The feedback we received indicated that it was much more than it should be during last year’s festival, he said.

Because of this, the police have increased their presence with uniformed and civilian servants this year. He also stresses that the organizer sits with responsibility for security, but that the police have imposed a festival minimums.

The festival must pay for a number of policemen themselves, while police have their own people who look for drugs, theft and the like.

– Security this year is considerably better than last year, says he said.

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