Elizabeth Street, Sydney: Police officer is stabbed in broad daylight
A police officer has been rushed to hospital after being allegedly stabbed in broad daylight.
The officer was allegedly attacked next to the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park on Elizabeth Street, Sydney, about 1:30pm on Sunday.
He was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital after receiving non-life threatening head injuries.
A NSW Police spokesperson confirmed a 33-year-old man has been arrested and taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital to be assessed.
A witness told Daily Mail Australia a Good Samaritan stopped his van and chased after the alleged knifeman before police tasered and arrested him.
A police officer has been rushed to hospital with non-life threatening head injuries after allegedly being stabbed by a man in Sydney’s CBD (pictured, emergency services at the scene)
NSW Police confirmed a 33-year-old man has been arrested and taken to hospital to be assessed (pictured, a man being treated at the scene)
Images from the scene show about 20 police officers and paramedics treating a man before being strapped to a stretcher and put into an ambulance.
The witness said the chaotic scene was ‘well under control’ within 20 minutes after plain-clothed police in unmarked cars and two riot squad vans arrived.
They saw police manually opening and closing what appeared to be a small flick or fold knife before placing it in an evidence bag.
The police spokesperson said there is ‘no ongoing threat to the public’.
A second crime scene has been established at the intersection of Castlereagh and Park Streets.
More to come.
A witness told Daily Mail Australia they saw police opening and closing what appeared to be a flick or fold knife before placing it in an evidence bag
Police had the chaotic scene ‘well under control’ within 20 minutes after plain clothed officers and two riot squad vans arrived (pictured)
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