A disgruntled man rang 999 to complain a few police helicopter that was reportedly protecting him awake within the early hours of the morning.

The Metropolitan Police shared a video of the alternate on social media, explaining the National Police Air Service chopper was serving to them search for a lacking lady.

They mentioned she was later discovered with "serious injuries" to her arms.

But it seems the decision left officers relatively bemused.

Dialling 999, the person says: "What time is this? It's two o'clock in the morning and at the moment there's a very noisy helicopter shining a beam of light above where I live.

"And it is awoken me. Now that is totally ridiculous and outrageous."

The call handler then tells the man the helicopter is "not a life or loss of life emergency".

But he continued: "Could you get that inner machine out the sky in order that I might get some sleep."

The handler adds: "Okay, you may have known as a life or loss of life emergency line to say a helicopter has woken you up."

But the man, undeterred, continued: "I need you to get that...look, I need some sleep. I need you to get that factor out of the sky.

"I want you to get that thing out of the sky so I can get some sleep, if you don't mind."

The handler then defined to the person his name was "not an emergency". They added: "You shouldn't be calling 999 for this. I'm going to end the call okay."

Sharing particulars of the video on social media, the Met Police urged individuals to "only use 999 in a real emergency" and directed different situation to the pressure web site.