Locals reported seeing police cars scrambling to the area at around 7pm yesterday, with a taxi driver who was working in Kirkby at the time saying he was told "a woman with a gun" had been spotted in the area.

"It was a bit of a shock." An eyewitness said: "There were a line of police cars and ambulances.

A police car which was attending an emergency call on blue lights crashed with a van on the Birmingham New Road in Dudley.

AN UNMARKED police car's lights had been covered in nylon tights to prevent it being identified as a police car before it crashed into a lorry and left an officer badly injured.

When the police cars, including a number of unmarked BMWs, cornered him, he tried to ram his way out, damaging a number of them.

A POLICE car collided with a member of the public's vehicle on a busy Stockton junction.

Police descended on Onslow Street and Bedford Road, by the Casino nightclub, with around a dozen police cars parked up and a police van.

Three police cars were commissioned to apprehend the 25-year-old Emirati student who was wanted by Dubai Police's Anti-Narcotics Department in May.

He was followed by the police patrol cars and he was cut off in Ayios Dhometios, Nicosia, after crashing into a parked car and being surrounded by police cars.

"There were two BMW police cars that came into town.

AWOMAN suffered suspected chest injuries in a late-night crash that left a badly damaged police car perched precariously on its side atop a barrier in the centre of a major Tyneside road.

"Within seconds, other police cars turned up as well as two fire engines and ambulances."

"More police cars arrived within seconds and the fire brigade.

TWO car thieves got away on foot after leading 14 police cars on a chase through a city.