Tomahawk attack on Melbourne police officer

A Melbourne police officer drew his gun on a tomahawk-wielding man to stop him inflicting further injuries on his already hurt colleague.

The man had pulled a tomahawk from a backpack and attacked a police van, breaking a window and slashing Constable Jodie Greaves on the hand and shoulder.

Constable Bill Tobin, his own face cut by glass, confronted the man with his pistol, police said.

The man panicked and fled. He remained at large last night.