{"id":574389,"date":"2025-11-16T15:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574389\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T15:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:49:22","slug":"person-taken-to-safety-after-police-close-high-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574389\/","title":{"rendered":"Person taken to safety after police close high street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a large police presence on the high street<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 __className_a22ef4\">Olivier Vergnault<\/strong> Senior Reporter <\/p>\n<p>13:26, 16 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_regent-street-kingswoodJPG.jpg\" alt=\"Regent Street in Kingswood where the incident happened this morning\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Regent Street in Kingswood where the incident happened this morning(Image: Googles Streetview)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">A Bristol road has been closed by police leading to concerns from the local community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">At about 10.10am today (Sunday November 16) a large police presence was spotted by local residents and shop keepers in Regent Street in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/kingswood\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Kingswood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">Pictures of the police shared on social media show at least three police cars and one van attending an address on Regent Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ NEXT: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/woodland-dog-walker-fright-life-10647779\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Woodland dog walker has fright of her life after spotting eerie object in tree<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ NEXT: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/cabot-circus-confirms-odeon-luxe-10647085?int_source=nba\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Cabot Circus confirms Odeon Luxe will open at shopping centre in the new year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">One local resident posted: &#8220;Kingswood high street has just been blocked by police.&#8221; This led to many others inquiring as to what it was about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police said the incident was nothing to worry about. They told BristolLive: &#8220;Our officers were responding to a concern for welfare matter. The individual is now in the care of health professionals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">&#8220;The call came in shortly before 10.10am to Regent Street in Kingswood.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a large police presence on the high street Olivier Vergnault Senior Reporter 13:26, 16 Nov 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,15124,393,4884,19406,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-574389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-cabot-circus","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-kingswood","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115560171024732842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574389","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=574389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}