A DART Music Festival crowd turned on a woman police officer as she tried to persuade an unofficial busking band to move to a safer spot in the town centre. The police community support officer asked the five-strong band to move out of Fairfax Place after the crowd watching the group became so large they were blocking the road – which was still open to traffic. One of the band members became abusive and then members of the crowd began hissing and booing, before some of them also became abusive, a police spokesman said. 'We were not trying to spoil anybody's enjoyment,' said the spokesman. 'We were quite happy for them to continue playing, we just wanted to make it safer for them and the public. There were concerns because of the sheer volume of people that were around them at the time.' The band was not on the official line up of musicians which had been put up as part of the annual three-day Dart Music Festival. The problem began at around 11am on the festival Saturday, when the crowd in Fairfax Place became so big there were problems with pedestrians and the traffic. 'All we were doing was looking out for the safety of the public and the road users,' said the police spokesman. He said the band had been asked to move to the embankment but instead they moved around the corner into Smith Street to finish playing. 'There was hissing and booing and things you would not expect from the public when there were small children around,' he added. Police seized alcohol from underage teenagers, arrested one man for fighting and questioned another teenager over possession of drugs during the three-day event. But the police spokesman added: 'It all went off very well from our point of view.' A 17-year-old was arrested on the Saturday evening after he was discovered in possession of a small amount of cannabis. A 21-year-old from Dartmouth was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning following reports of a fight in Foss Street. By the time the police arrived one of the men had run off. The one that was still there was held for the rest of the night before being handed an £80 fixed penalty notice for a public order offence before being released. Police seized a quantity of beer and vodka from young people during the course of the festival. The booze was taken off around a dozen youngsters aged from 14 to 17 , said the police spokesman.