Area law enforcement will be joined by additional agencies to ensure a safe Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival for concertgoers.
While between 70,000 and 75,000 people are expected to attend the event at the Great Stage Park in Manchester between June 14-18, Manchester Police Chief Bill Sipe said police will be working with other law enforcement agencies to ensure everything goes as smoothly as possible.
“Well it certainly stretches our manpower, no doubt,” Sipe said. “However, due to cooperative efforts between our agency, the county, the state and federal agencies, it certainly helps us tremendously to reach out to them and have their resources available to us as well.”
Sipe said there will most likely be at least a few arrests during the festival this year, that is nothing the police department is not prepared for.
“It happens every year at Bonnaroo,” he said. “We will probably have more arrests than we generally do, but we anticipate that and we sort of plan for that as well.”
Sipe said that while he could not say how many officers will be on duty during the festival, that number will be “many more than what Manchester provides.”
“We will police like we normally police, however, we will be very busy with trying to get traffic through,” he said. “We always try to keep at least one corridor of the roadway open so we can get local traffic through as well as emergency vehicles.”
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