Arrest after false claim (From Daily Echo)

Arrest after false claim

3:33pm Saturday 14th November 2009 in

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POLICE have arrested a person for wasting police time after they claimed a girl was had gone missing in a Hampshire park last night.

Following the malicious call at 7.30pm police spent more than five hours searching the Royal Victoria Country Park in Netley Abbey during the adverse weather conditions.

The search is estimated to have cost thousands of pounds after a Coastguard helicopter was used to search the area due to the stormy weather preventing the police spotter plane from taking off.

The search was called off at around 2.30am and a person was arrested for wasting police time.