This is the dramatic moment a man who climbed on to a roof in St Helens was led away after being arrested by police.
Casually puffing away on a cigarette, he exchanges greetings with individuals among a small crowd of onlookers before being put into a police van and driven away.
In the video, he can be heard saying: "You can take me away but you'll never take my freedom."
The man, clad in a black North Face puffa jacket, had been on the roof in Cambridge Road for about three hours before he was finally persuaded down at around 5.30pm today.
Earlier, he could be seen recklessly running along the roof of a row of terraced properties and gesticulating to the 20-strong crowd which had gathered at the police cordon.
The man, who was wanted on warrant by police, came to the attention of officers around 2.40pm.
He fled and made his way onto the roof of a property on Cambridge Road, at its junction with Grafton Street.
Emergency services closed the road and a fire crew launched an aerial ladder to gain access to the roof.
The man ran around and posed on the roof before being brought down and arrested.
The incident happened a day after an attack at a nearby Farmfoods store, in which a member of staff was stabbed by a suspected shoplifter, but police said the incidents are not believed to be connected.
