The man at the centre of an incident that closed a busy central city street in Rotorua has been returned to the care of mental health services.
Arawa St was closed between Tutanekai and Amohia Sts for several hours yesterday after a man wearing a Free Palestine T-shirt spent hours on the roof of a single-storey building containing a Defence Force careers office.
Police were called about 12.40pm.
Rotorua police area commander Inspector Herby Ngawhika said the 29-year-old man had been in the care of mental health services two days before the incident but had left.
He said police closed the street when he went onto a roof, to ensure the man’s safety.
