Police have arrested two men and are searching for a third after an airborne pursuit by the police helicopter Eagle and an attempted carjacking in Mangere Bridge this afternoon.
At about 1:10 pm a police patrol making enquiries in the Clendon Park area saw a suspicious car with three occupants, one of whom was seen with a sawn-off shotgun.
The car sped off at high speed but the police patrol was unable to follow.
Shortly afterwards the police helicopter crew spotted the car and tracked it from the air as it drove to the Mangere Bridge area. The car stopped and the two occupants abandoned it.
At the corner of Church Street and Coronation Road they attempted to carjack a passing car.