‘An absolute hero’: Police officer gives chase after being stabbed in neck

— 4:11pm , first published 11:19am

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Share A A A A man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a newly graduated Queensland police officer in the neck during a callout at a home east of Brisbane on Sunday morning.

Officers were called to a residential address on Bogong Street in Hemmant about 5.15am following reports of a disturbance between a father and son.

Police engaged with the two men before one allegedly attacked an officer, stabbing him in the neck and torso with a 10-centimetre knife.

An officer at the scene of the stabbing in Hemmant on Sunday. Nine Another officer was “slashed across the forehead”, according to the Queensland Police Union.