Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush helped arrest an offender armed with a chisel in Melbourne CBD on his way to work.<\/p>\n
Bush, the former Commissioner of New Zealand Police who has led Victoria Police for just over a year, said he and a colleague were travelling along Collins St when they spotted two officers pursuing a man wanted in connection with an incident.<\/p>\n
“We saw a couple of our fine colleagues pursuing someone who was obviously a threat to the community,” Bush told Australian media.<\/p>\n
The chief commissioner said they pulled alongside the man and instructed him to stop, but he ignored their requests and continued on foot.<\/p>\n
“They didn’t take us up on our invitation verbally to remain where they were,” he said.<\/p>\n
Bush then got out of the vehicle and physically restrained the man until the pursuing officers caught up.<\/p>\n
“I got out of the vehicle and put my arms around him and restrained him until my colleagues arrived, and he was arrested,” he said.<\/p>\n
Asked whether it was a rugby-style tackle, Bush joked he had considered “going low”, but it was not necessary.<\/p>\n
“I’m not sure who got the biggest fright, the person we were restraining or my two colleagues who looked up and saw who was assisting them,” he said.<\/p>\n
“As I was very close to approaching him, he discarded a sharp weapon, which turned out to be a chisel, and another instrument that he might be able to use for breaking and entering cars or homes,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He relieved himself of those two things at about the same time he met me.”<\/p>\n
Bush said helping frontline officers was simply part of the job, regardless of rank.<\/p>\n
“We’re police officers first and bosses second. When you see your colleagues needing some support, you jump straight in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush helped arrest an offender armed with a chisel in Melbourne CBD on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-530129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}