A major police presence has been seen attending an incident a busy road in Peckham in a video shared on social media.
Multiple officers with police dogs were spotted in Peckham Rye near Hawkslade Road at around 10.30pm yesterday (August 19).
Footage, shared on X (formally known as Twitter), shows a large crowd of people outside a row of shops, surrounded by officers and dogs.
Chaos in Peckham tonight - you can hear the guy who walks past in the first clip saying he has a knife on him pic.twitter.com/72HsBufHd9
— Cam Vargas (@CamVargas8) August 19, 2024
The group can then been seen gradually walking way as the dogs start barking towards their direction.
It is unknown whether the group in the footage was involved in the incident.
We have contacted the Metropolitan Police and London Ambulance Service for further information.
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