A police officer was surrounded and assaulted while trying to stop a brawl at a service station in the Auckland suburb of Glen Innes this morning.
The officer arrived at the Mobil service station on Apirana Avenue at about 12:15am after receiving reports of a large number of people fighting
He was surrounded and assaulted by a number of offenders, police said.
Police said the officer was taken to hospital with a laceration to the back of his head.
Two men were being interviewed by police over the incident.