A stand-off at Tauranga Hospital ended after police stormed a ward where a man had barricaded himself for almost two hours.
A Tauranga police spokesman said the stand-off began about 4pm when the 39-year-old local man, who had been a patient at the hospital, threatened to cut himself and damage his hospital room.
Police officers were seen entering the hospital with riot shields and body armour.
"When police arrived he had barricaded himself in the room and was threatening to cut himself with a razor and a pair of scissors as well as set his toilet area alight," the spokesman said.
After an hour of police negotiators trying to talk him out of the room, police stormed the room, he said.