Police helicopters tonight

[B&G]

Just walked home from ED station down Melbourne Grove and East Dulwih Grove is crawling with police. Four cars and a van from what we could see, plus two helicopters circling above. Had a look on BBC news but nothing there.

Anyone know what's going on..?

[northlondoner]

Gang activity

[emser]

omg im totally freaked out!

[Playfield]

Me too. Very disconcerting. They've been hovering really close to ours for a good half hour now :(

[natalie_b]

It's really loud and my apparently my boyfriend thinks he is a comedian and is trying to come up with funny suggestions i.e.

-Ow no they've found my stash of coriander

-Ow no my dinner conversation is a bit flat and my dealer is having a problem getting here

-It's a bank holiday weekend and I've told my kids is a taxi to take them to the grandparents is Scotland

-It's Boris doing his victory lap

-Clarence goes missing from The Bishop

Seriously!! Anyone know whats actually happening?

[B&G]

Boris doing his victory lap is the best suggestion so far...:)

[tomsav]

Trespasser on the train line, apparently.

[emser]

Theres nothing on the news at all, ugh the helicopter keeps hovering over my garden!! I have my phone in my hand ready to call 999 if i hear a noise!

[emser]

Tresspasers on the train!??

[dougie.freeman]

tomsav Wrote:

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> Trespasser on the train line, apparently.

Economic use of police resources to deal with a trespasser...

[tomsav]

On the train line. The tracks. Gone now, go to sleep.

[tomsav]

To be fair trespassers on the line often end up either making a mess under a coach, or nicking a load of cabling, both of which are worth avoiding if poss.

[EMR]

I was on one of the trains delayed by said track invasion. We got moving again within 10-12 mins so a job well done I reckon!

[Spooner]

the hovering over your house certainly doesn't make for a good night's sleep. was it seriously someone on the tracks or is that a joke that's lost on me?!

[DulwichFox]

Apparantly due to Little Old Lady in her Nineties walked out of 24hr shop

without paying for a Mars Bar..

Fox

[wadeylady001]

It was due to a vehicle ramming a police car and the police then being assaulted and the suspect then being on the run. If you follow the police helicopter twitter account @mpsinthesky they do post about most of their late night missions.

[Glutenberg]

Hope they aren't using their phones while flying the 'copter. They could get a ticket for that

[uncleglen]

45 minutes it was going around for. I get concerned when they are near because when I was young a crim on the run opened our back gate , ran through the garden and over the back wall pursued by the police. It was exciting at the time because we were all indoors but when you think what could happen given the deperation of junkies..... especially since that awful business in Peckham when a man was tied up and tortured

[Lishyloo]

I like it

[wadeylady001]

Is the police chopper really such a rarity in Midsomer Dulwich? You should try living here in CSI Catford. Practically our usual Friday evening soundtrack. :-)

[JohnL]

Wasn't that New Cross

Or was that another terrible incident

Wrote:

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> 45 minutes it was going around for. I get

> concerned when they are near because when I was

> young a crim on the run opened our back gate , ran

> through the garden and over the back wall pursued

> by the police. It was exciting at the time because

> we were all indoors but when you think what could

> happen given the deperation of junkies.....

> especially since that awful business in Peckham

> when a man was tied up and tortured

[Sue]

wadeylady001 Wrote:

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> Is the police chopper really such a rarity in

> Midsomer Dulwich? You should try living here in

> CSI Catford. Practically our usual Friday evening

> soundtrack. :-)

xxxxxx

Nah, not at all a rarity, but every time one comes anywhere near East Dulwich somebody starts a new thread on here :))

[uncleglen]

JohnL you are thinking of the French students and the Sonnex person. The other incident earlier than that and involved an older man in Peckham Hill street if i recall correctly

[tomsav]

Spooner Wrote:

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> the hovering over your house certainly doesn't

> make for a good night's sleep. was it seriously

> someone on the tracks or is that a joke that's

> lost on me?!

Not a joke. Piecing everything together, a car rammed a police car, the driver assaulted officers and ran away. He appears to have attepted to either hide on the railway, or cross the tracks, or run along the embankment or something, causing trains to be halted while the helicopter searched for him. He was arrested.

[emser]

Good, one less piece of scum on the streets!