POLICE were involved in a near three hour stand-off after receiving reports of a man brandishing a weapon in a street. 
Officers were called to Sandown Road, Brighton, at 11.25am after hearing a man was spotted outside a house with a weapon. 
By the time they arrived he had gone inside and riot police equipped with shields were called in to negotiate with him. 
The top of the road, by Elm Grove, was cordoned off for most of the afternoon and Sandown Road residents were told to stay inside or leave the street. 
Around ten riot police and specially trained officers surrounded the house, which is split into two flats, while they continued the negotiations but the man did not leave the property. 
At around 2pm more police staff in unmarked police cars arrived equipped with headphones, helmets and a battering ram and broke into the home at 2.15pm, followed by officers and paramedics. 
After around 15 minutes a man thought to be in his early 60s emerged from the house with a neck wound escorted by police. He was put in an ambulance and taken to hospital. 
A police spokesman said: “Officers entered the home because they believed the man was injured and that he needed medical attention. The man was detained under section 135 of the Mental Health Act and was taken to hospital for treatment.”