DJ charged after allegedly failing to turn down music, leave out-of-control party at Booyeembara Park

A DJ has been charged after he allegedly refused to turn down his music and leave an out-of-control gathering in the early hours of Boxing Day — one of two parties police shut down in Fremantle.

Officers were first called to Booyeembara Park in Fremantle about 12.30am on Boxing Day where they found about 600 people had gathered.

Police from Fremantle, the canine unit, and the regional operations ground all attended and the crowd was dispersed without incident.

A video circulating on social media shows a crowd in the amphitheatre singing as fireworks go off in the background and a line of police officers watch on with torches.

A few hours later, at 3am, police say they were called to another large party at Port Beach in North Fremantle. It is alleged 200 people were there — some of them from the gathering that had been shut down hours earlier.

Another out-of-control gathering was declared and the revellers were asked to leave the area.

Police say a majority of the attendees complied.

But it is alleged the DJ at the event was asked several times by police to shut down the event, but instead turned up the music and failed to comply.

Officers seized his DJ equipment before he was asked again to leave, but he allegedly refused.

One resident described the Port Beach party as “noisy and messy”.

“My wife is very unhappy at the moment,” he told 7NEWS.

Asked about the mess left behind, he said “there’s no need for that”.

“It’s just pointless, it’s anti-social ... you can come and drink and have fun and take your stuff with you, most people do that,” he said.

The latest incidents come after the City of Fremantle was forced to close access to the South Mole after moves to install CCTV and increasing security patrols failed to stop revellers from hosting raves in the area.

At the time, Polar Bears secretary Trevor Pedler said up to 150 people had been partying almost every weekend.

“We have had to put with belligerent party goers in the car park and around our club rooms,” he said. “They are still going until 9am.

“They have left rubbish all over the beach and there is no toilet up there so there has been urination and defecation on the beach.

“Our members have been abused with profanities after being asked for drugs.”

The 28-year-old DJ, of Melville, was charged with failing to comply with an order relating to an out-of-control gathering in relation to the Port Beach gathering.

He is due to appear in Fremantle Magistrates Court on January 24.