A POLICE officer was hurt in a chase with a suspected drug driver.
Officers stopped a car close to the Shell petrol station in Old Ipswich Road at 2.15am on Friday and asked the driver to provide a roadside drug test.
He refused, ran off and attempted to scale a fence.
The man then fell back back and fell onto the officer who was giving chase.
He was then located by other officer with help from the police helicopter at roughly 3.20am.
The man was arrested on suspicion of drug driving and assaulting a police officer.
He remains in custody.
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