His citation notes that: "During the pursuit, the offender stopped several times to throw items at Constable Woodward, including a molotov cocktail. He also set fire to the road with inflammable liquid.
"The offender was eventually stopped with road spikes. Over the following five hours, Constable Woodward negotiated and established a rapport with him.
"He defused several potentially dangerous situations and provided the offender with a number of options that, together with Armed Offenders Squad, led to a safe surrender and arrest."
Speaking before yesterday's parade, Mr Woodward said the car chase had taken place over one and a half hours.
During that time, he said, McDonald had pointed at him "what I believed to be a firearm, with a spotlight", had thrown molotov cocktails, and had used some kind of flamethrower device, which melted the rubber on his windscreen wipers, blocking his vision.
At one point, the two vehicles were close together at a bridge over a culvert, and McDonald had been "ready to ram him" to take both vehicles off the road.
"I was quite prepared to take one for the team ... Given the circumstances, I felt that was acceptable."
After McDonald was stopped, he and Woodward - who was also an Armed Offenders Squad member - were involved in a five-hour stand-off and negotiation, which eventually resulted in McDonald's surrender and arrest.
During this time, "He was trying to get us to shoot him, trying to commit suicide by cop, basically," Mr Woodward said.
"Isolation was just a huge, huge factor ... It was one of those hopefully once in a lifetime jobs."
