A police officer has been stabbed in the arm while at a family harm incident in North Canterbury.
Canterbury District Commander Superintendent John Price said officers were called to an address in Oxford just after 4.30pm yesterday after receiving reports that a man was damaging property.
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The officer was trying to calm the man down when he took out a knife.