emerged that there was not much significant statistical difference. Figure3:Membership Status No 21% Yes 79% Nature and Extent of Raids Figure 4 shows that 55% of the respondents had experienced a raid whilst attending an event organised by GALZ either at its premises or at another venue. GALZ has experienced several incidences of raids and threats to the organisation from the period 2009, which have been perpetrated by police, state agencies, youth militia and unidentified individuals. The staff indicated that whenever it has been the police implementing a raid, they would often identify themselves and produce search warrants, however this was not always the case. For example, a few years ago there a raid in which two staff members got arrested. The police produced a search warrant for drugs and pornography. They seized computers and any reading 13 An Assessment of the impact of state sanctioned and unsanctioned raids on GALZ premises and gatherings