{"id":566591,"date":"2026-05-05T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566591\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:16:08","slug":"helicopter-circles-over-plymouth-as-serious-incident-declared-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566591\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter circles over Plymouth as ‘serious incident’ declared by police"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have confirmed there is an ongoing ‘serious incident’ as a police helicopter circles a UK city and a huge police presence has been reported by local residents<\/p>\n

23:42, 04 May 2026Updated 00:01, 05 May 2026<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police spotted in Plymouth (Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n

A ‘serious’ police incident is ongoing in a UK city this evening as a helicopter continues to circle.<\/p>\n

Devon and Cornwall Police <\/a>have confirmed a ‘serious incident’ is ongoing in Plymouth after multiple residents have spotted a police helicopter<\/a> circling above the city on Monday evening (May 4).<\/p>\n

Emergency services <\/a>have also been spotted at a business park near Cattedown.<\/p>\n

According to locals, the helicopter has reportedly been “flying low” over the St Judes area and between North Cross and Beaumont Park since 9pm.<\/p>\n

Police cordons are also in place, with a large police presence, by Treeby Court.<\/p>\n

A resident told PlymouthLive<\/a> there are “loads of police and ambulance” off Gdynia Way.<\/p>\n

Another resident added: “Major incident on Embankment Road – helicopter, armed response and ambulances. Helicopter is searching the parks and streets in relation to the ongoing incident.”<\/p>\n

The force are yet to confirm any further details of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have confirmed there is an ongoing ‘serious incident’ as a police helicopter circles a UK city and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14689,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-566591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-devon-and-cornwall-police","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566591","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=566591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}