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A woman found Sunday morning without vital signs in the cells at London police headquarters has been taken to hospital, The Free Press has learned.

Few details are known about the patient, but paramedics were called to the London police station on Dundas Street shortly after 9:30 a.m. for a patient without vital signs.

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“A person in custody was located in a cellblock with vital signs absent,” Const. Tanya Alexander, a spokesperson for London police, said to The Free Press.

“As a result, we called London paramedics and the person was transported to hospital.”

An official with Middlesex London paramedics confirmed paramedics took a woman in serious condition to Victoria Hospital where she remained Sunday afternoon.

Alexander wouldn’t confirm the prisoner was a woman or why they were in custody or elaborate on the situation, saying the Special Investigation Unit had been notified.

As of early Sunday afternoon, however, the SIU had not invoked its mandate, something that could still change, Alexander said.

Created in 1990, the SIU investigates cases of death, serious injury and allegations of sexual assault involving police.