Local residents have described looking out of their window to see a group of Armed Police taking up position on a street in Brading earlier tonight (Friday).
A number of Police vehicles quietly arrived on Station Road in the town sometime around 21:30, with both authorised firearms officers and a local dog handler seen geared up near the junction with Lower Furlongs.
It is currently unclear what prompted an armed response to the residential area, but the incident appears to have been brought to a swift and safe conclusion.
It is thought that a number of the firearms officers crossed the Solent from the mainland in response to the unknown threat. They were collected from a local ferry terminal and rushed through to Brading by a local unit.
UPDATE SATURDAY – Island Echo understands that Police were looking for a 29-year-old local woman, although the circumstances as to why remain unknown.
The individual was not found at Station Road.
UPDATE SATURDAY @ 10:20 – Armed Police are reported to have been in attendance at an address on East Hill Road, Ryde last night – just a short time before arriving at Brading.
2 Police vehicles remain outside Leavington House this morning.
Hampshire Constabulary have been approached for a statement but a response is not expected until Monday.
UPDATE MONDAY – Police have confirmed that 3 people have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary.
Read more on this story at https://www.islandecho.co.uk/3-arrested-on-suspicion-of-aggravated-burglary-following-weekend-manhunt/.
Glad to see we are all safe but I wonder if they weren’t delayed
Perhaps there making new ROBO COP
With the police being shipped over from the mainland, new film title ROWBO COP
Hmm, there have been more and more of that ‘sort’, in Ryde recently. It was only a matter of time. More like London every day here now. Get used to it, plenty more when Ryde has thousands more ‘social housing’ boxes built to be breed to capacity. They won’t ‘all’ be filed by Mr Smith.