A car crashed through two sets of glass doors and into the front foyer of the Hamilton central police station on Wednesday afternoon.
It narrowly missed several people, coming to rest about a metre from the front service counter, Hamilton City Area Commander Inspector Rob Lindsay says.
Two men were in the car, and the driver was believed to be suffering mental health issues, Lindsay says.
The driver was "extremely uncooperative and aggressive" towards police staff and had to be forcibly extracted from the car, he says.
Two police staff were injured in the struggle and the driver sustained a number of cuts, while the passenger was uninjured.
A female officer required several stitches for a cut to her hand and a male officer suffered an eye injury.
The station's front counter would be out of action for several hours and non-urgent queries should be referred to other local stations.
The driver was under guard at Waikato Hospital and would be assessed by mental health service providers before a decision on laying charges was made.
A witness told the Waikato Times the car was heading down Bridge
Street towards Victoria Street when it took a sudden right turn and
crashed into the front of the building.
