{"id":149289,"date":"2025-06-01T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149289\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:10:12","slug":"police-alert-over-man-on-roof-in-redditch-road-ends-with-officer-assaulted-and-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149289\/","title":{"rendered":"Police alert over &#8216;man on roof&#8217; in Redditch Road ends with officer assaulted and arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and criminal damage during the incident<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1_1000020283.jpg\" alt=\"Police search teams on scene in Redditch Road\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police search teams on scene in Redditch Road<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police have issued a statement to explain what happened after an emergency services alert in Redditch Road this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Specialist officers, firefighters and an ambulance were all seen lining part of the street in Kings Norton from Saturday morning into the afternoon, May 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">999 was dialled amid concerns for a &#8216;man on a roof&#8217;, with the incident ending in an officer assaulted and an arrest made, police now confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read more:<\/strong> <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/mums-full-circle-moment-after-31737366\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Mum&#8217;s &#8216;full-circle moment&#8217; after \u00a322k electricity bill forced restaurant shut and left her with no income<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and assaulting a police officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was taken to hospital for a medical assessment, but will be questioned &#8220;in due course&#8221;, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A statement from the force, issued today, Sunday, June 1, read: &#8220;We were called to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/redditch\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Redditch<\/a> Road, Kings Norton yesterday morning (1 June) to concerns for the welfare of a man on a roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and assaulting a police officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;He has been taken to hospital for medical assessment and will be questioned in due course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_keep.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Firefighters were called to the incident, but said it was &#8216;police-led&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An ambulance had been seen leaving the area on blue lights after &#8220;a lot of movement&#8221; inside a house on Redditch Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Several officers from operational support units were pictured working on scene. One resident, named only as Andrew, told us: &#8220;There is now 3 OSU (operational support units) on site and 5-6 police cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to say what&#8217;s happened, but from what I can see, there is a white man in an upstairs room, and there is a lot of movement inside both houses on Redditch Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Police and ambulance staff are inside one downstairs, the 3rd OSU just left on blues, but a fourth has pulled up now. No firearms police are on site as of yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and criminal damage during the incidentPolice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-149289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}