Belfast: PSNI officer injured in struggle during arrest
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A 59-year-old has been charged with assaulting a police officer after an incident near Boucher Road in south Belfast.
The officer suffered a thumb injury that needed hospital treatment after an arrest operation on Wildflower Way shortly before 22:50 BST on Friday.
The police said they tried to speak to a man found in the back of a vehicle.
However, he tried to close the door on one of them and then began to struggle with officers.
The man has been charged with assault on police, resisting police, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possession of a Class B controlled drug.
He will appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Monday.
"Assaults on our officers are unacceptable, and must not be tolerated as simply being 'part of the job'," a police spokesperson said.