Child with toy gun prompts police call out

A child playing with a toy gun sparked an armed police call out at the weekend.

At 3pm on Saturday, a motorist contacted Dunedin police after seeing what looked like a gun being waved from a car window in Andersons Bay Rd, Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen said.

Police, including armed officers, stopped the car in John Wilson Ocean Drive, where they discovered a child had been playing with a toy gun.