{"id":117512,"date":"2025-09-06T00:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117512\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:25:10","slug":"reports-of-man-acting-suspiciously-in-birmingham-false-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117512\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports of man acting suspiciously in Birmingham false, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reports of a man acting suspiciously, which sparked a huge emergency response in Birmingham, were inaccurate, police have confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A large number of police officers and vehicles, including a helicopter, descended on the Erdington area of the city on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midlands Police said earlier that they were trying to locate a man who was reported to have been acting suspiciously, adding: &#8220;As always, our focus is on ensuring the safety of everyone.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortly before 22:00 BST, the force said it had made a number of inquiries and confirmed the report, while made &#8220;out of genuine concern&#8221;, turned out to be inaccurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports of a man acting suspiciously, which sparked a huge emergency response in Birmingham, were inaccurate, police have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-117512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}