Armed police have detained two men in separate incidents in Brighton and Ramsgate today.
Officers swooped in Brighton earlier this afternoon after reports of a man brandishing a knife.
He was confronted by police using a Taser and was allegedly seen to drop what appeared to be a weapon.
In a separate incident in Ramsgate, armed cops surrounded a man an detained him on the floor after being called to a property.
There is heightened security across Britain after the attempted abduction of a British serviceman who was out jogging at RAF Marham, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, East Anglia.