Armed police (Whateley Rd)

[Shaggy]

Anyone got any idea why armed police were closing down Whateley Rd and surrounding streets about an hour ago? The street is now open but there are still lots of firearms officers milling around. I spoke to one of them and he explained that that they had to close off the area around a certain address because of an "incident" but he hadn't been told what that incident was.

[indiepanda]

Blimey, I am only just round the corner from there... haven't heard a thing. Must be something serious for there to be lots of firearms officers.

[bigbadwolf]

Probably one of those doorstep schemers was spotted trying to ponce some petrol money off some gullible nit wit

[????]

Someone got one wheel parked on the pavement I suspect...

[Keef]

I walked up there to my parents' about half 3 and all quiet, so hopefully not too serious.

[ruffers]

An incident of some kind I reckon.

[PeckhamRose]

Home Secretary went shopping or visiting someone? Incident being, the someone was not in and she got angry.

[Ms T]

She must have been shopping on Friern Road, this morning, as there were 3 police cars and a police dog. Anyone know what happened?

[AcedOut]

I saw the whole thing starting from the Bell end of the road. I looked like an organised police operation. I counted 5 police cars and one unmarked. At least three of the cars were armed (dots in the windscreen corners). They were staking out a house half was down the street. I walked down the street just before it closed and walked past two firearms officers with what looked like rifles of some description. Both were standing opposite the house they were staking out.

I didn't stick around to see what was going to develop though...