A dramatic rescue unfolded in Croydon today when police officers, who were guarding a crime scene on Canterbury Road in Thornton Heath, rushed to the aid of a distressed man who reported that a baby had been accidentally locked inside a nearby house with a cooker left on.

The quick-thinking officers immediately sprang into action, with one officer running from the crime scene to the house in question, and additional police cars arriving to provide support.

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