{"id":401805,"date":"2025-09-06T05:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401805\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:07:15","slug":"everyone-was-really-concerned-birmingham-residents-react-to-major-police-operation-sparked-by-false-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401805\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Everyone was really concerned&#8217; &#8211; Birmingham residents react to &#8216;major police operation&#8217; sparked by false alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> have said that a major, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.expressandstar.com\/news\/2025\/09\/05\/air-and-ground-manhunt-across-parts-of-birmingham-turned-out-to-be-inaccurate-999-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multi-service manhunt<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perry Barr and Erdington<\/a> region was launched out of &#8216;genuine concern&#8217; but &#8216;turned out to be inaccurate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The manhunt, which included West Midlands Police&#8217;s land and air teams, and the fire service, was launched sometime prior to 6.25pm, when the force urged residents of the region to &#8216;be vigilant&#8217; following reports of a man acting suspiciously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox with the Express &amp; Star\u2019s free newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of reports of armed police, helicopters, and national police air service planes flooded social media following the alert, with West Midlands Police saying at the time that they had a &#8216;large police presence&#8217; in the Erdington area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Inaccurate&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Now, in an update provided to the Express &amp; Star, the force has said that the report was proved to be a &#8216;false alarm&#8217; that was made with &#8216;good intent&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police have said that a major, multi-service manhunt in the Perry Barr and Erdington region was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-401805","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-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115155621861391614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401805","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=401805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}