Police arrested a man in Wisbech after he threatened officers with this knife after he was confronted for an earlier shoplifting offence in the Horsefair Shopping Centre. (Image: Archant)
A man has been arrested in Wisbech after threatening police officers with a knife.
The man, who had been identified as a suspect in an earlier shoplifting offence in the Horsefair Shopping Centre, turned on officers when they approached him this afternoon (Monday March 7).
Officers quickly controlled the situation, before the man was arrested and taken to King's Lynn police station.
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