Police officers attacked with wooden table leg

Two police officers were attacked with a garden table leg while attending a domestic incident last night. Photo / File

Two police officers were attacked with a garden table leg while attending a domestic incident last night.

Both officers needed hospital treatment after they went into a house to break up an incident - and the man and woman inside turned on them.

The officers knocked on the door of a house in Kenmure Rd, Dunedin, at 11pm.

"A man from within the household opened the door and assaulted him, at one stage using the broken leg from a wooden garden table as a weapon," Inspector Jason Guthrie said.

"The officer suffered cuts, grazing and bruising to both arms.

"Thankfully he was saved from major injury by his body armour, which absorbed the blows."

As one officer was being assaulted the second officer was attacked by a woman who struck him in the mouth, causing moderate facial injuries.

The officers were forced to call in reinforcements and the couple were arrested.

Both officers were taken to a hospital emergency department for treatment but chose to return to duty.

"I am proud of our officers who acted incredibly professionally in what was an
unacceptable and completely unprovoked attack against them," Guthrie said.

A man, 49, was charged with assault with a blunt instrument, assault with intent to injure and resisting police.

A woman, 42, faces charges of being unlawfully in a building, obstruction, common assault and assault on police.