UPDATE: Police search prompted by bogus call (From News Shopper)
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UPDATE: Police search prompted by bogus call
8:07am Tuesday 19th August 2008 in
POLICE were called to bogus reports of a man with a gun in Orpington yesterday.
But after four hours searching the area around Elmcroft Road and Perry Hall Road, officers questioning the man who made the original call discovered he had made up his story about the man with a gun.
Officers made a search of the area after police received a call from a man claiming to have seen a man carrying a firearm at 1.57pm yesterday.
The three firearm response units, four police cars and three ambulances had left the area by 5.56pm.
No charges have been brought against the man who made the bogus call to police to date.
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Emergency services arrived at the scene in Elmcroft Road, off Perry Hall Road, Orpington
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