In the event, more than 12,000 people turned up and the police had to be called to control the crowd.

The least of what we wanted was to use them to control crowds.

The police were still trying to control the crowd after midnight.

Special arrangements for security are made to control the crowd.

However, both of them declared that they are no longer able to control the crowd.

Some teachers said they could not control the crowd until a dozen police cars arrived.

A police dog squad was called in to control the crowd.

About 50 deputies and 25 city police officers were called in to control the crowd.

All New York's police had been called out to control the crowd.

Others were running around trying to control the crowd.