Oldham police have revealed details of the incidents they responded to on a shift recently.

The GMP unit has said it responded to five incidents one evening this week.

Officers were first called to Chadderton following concerns about a woman’s welfare.

The fire service also attended and the woman was taken back to a mental health ward for specialist care.

Police then attended elsewhere in Chadderton where a man had reported that two people were using his flat to use drugs.

The man was found and efforts will be made to rehome him.

Officers then helped returns a missing old woman to her family in Oldham.

She was found in Warrington and necessary safeguarding will be put in place.

Police then went to Greenfield after a van and a child pedestrian collided.

The youngster did not require hospital treatment and a report was filed into the incident.

Officers subsequently went to a serious assault in Shaw where a man’s window was smashed and he was later attacked.

He was taken to hospital in a stable condition.