{"id":402551,"date":"2026-01-09T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402551\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:03:07","slug":"police-issue-statement-after-concerning-incident-at-asda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402551\/","title":{"rendered":"Police issue statement after concerning incident at Asda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Several police cars, a fire engine, an ambulance, and an air ambulance attended the Asda Wal-Mart store at the Orbital Shopping Park on Friday afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Wiltshre Police spkesperson said: &#8220;At around 2pm, officers and our partners in the fire and ambulance services responded to a mental health-related incident at the Orbital Shopping Centre, Swindon.\u00a0<br \/>\u201cA woman in her 20s has been taken to hospital to be treated for injuries to her legs which are not thought to be life-changing.<br \/>\u201cA scene was put in place but has now been lifted. There was no risk to the wider public.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: \u201cWe were called at 14:47hrs on January 9 to an incident in Swindon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We sent one double-crewed land ambulance, an air ambulance, an operations officer and a first responder to the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We conveyed one patient by land ambulance to Great Western Hospital.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesman for\u00a0Dorset &amp; Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said: &#8220;A crew from Stratton was called to the Orbital Shopping Centre at 2.56pm to assist police and ambulance colleagues with an incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;On arrival, no action was required, so our stop was at 3.28pm.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several police cars, a fire engine, an ambulance, and an air ambulance attended the Asda Wal-Mart store at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-402551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}