Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man after a senior constable was injured in Moorabbin earlier this week.
Officers were called to a welfare check on Kings Way to reports of a man slumped in a silver Audi S5 about 2.40pm on 25 June.
As the senior constable opened the car door and started to check on the man, he allegedly started the engine and drove away, dragging her behind the car for approximately four metres before fleeing the scene.
The female officer was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
This morning, detectives arrested a 34-year-old Sydenham male at a hotel in Chadstone.
Investigators searched the vehicle and the man’s hotel room and located what is alleged to be a set of fraudulent licence plates and a quantity of methylamphetamine.
The man has been charged with:
• aggravated intentionally exposure of a police officer to risk by driving
• reckless exposure of police officer to risk
• assault police
• possess methylamphetamine
• 2 x fraudulently use registration label
• drive whilst disqualified
• fail to render assistance after accident.
He will appear before Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 27 June.
