and so the organisers , who were probably the same who had been running the old illegal raves until quite recently , paused only to call in the police before disappearing into the surrounding countryside ; and leaving it for the force to tend to thirty thousand colourfully dressed people , who were now being asked , and by the very officers they still viewed with suspicion from those earlier lawless days , to leave in an orderly fashion the field they had but a short while ago paid a not insignificant sum to enter .