Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush has helped take down an alleged weapon-wielding offender while driving in Melbourne\u2019s CBD.<\/p>\n
Police say Triple Zero calls alerted officers to a man in Melbourne’s CBD allegedly carrying a knife.<\/p>\n
Patrolling officers confronted the man on Queen Street, and when he was not compliant, attempted to use a taser on the man.<\/p>\n
When the taser had no effect, the 32-year-old Brunswick man ran from police down Collins Street.<\/p>\n
Chief Commissioner Mike Bush was travelling to work with his security officer in a car, and spotted the man running from police.<\/p>\n
Police say Chief Commissioner Bush then got out of the car and restrained the man before other officers were able to help.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officers seized a chisel following the arrest, which the man threw away prior to his arrest. The man was taken to hospital for assessment.<\/p>\n
No-one was injured during the incident.<\/p>\n
The take-down comes just over six months after Inspector Dean Thomas of the Homicide Squad chased an alleged teenage offender while on his lunch break with colleagues.<\/p>\n
The group of officers reportedly saw the 14-year-old allegedly punch a man in the head near the DFO food court on Spencer Street in January.<\/p>\n
At the time, police charged the boy on summons and he was released from custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush has helped take down an alleged weapon-wielding offender while driving in Melbourne\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45387,64,63,2603,376329,647,129113,44,1158,660],"class_list":["post-803323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-arrest","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cbd","tag-chief-commissioner","tag-melbourne","tag-mike-bush","tag-news","tag-police","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}