A person has been arrested on suspicion of tried homicide after three PSNI autos had been badly broken by a suspect attempting to flee on a tractor.
The incident occurred in Fivemiletown, Co Tyrone, in the course of the early hours of Saturday morning.
Officers who attended the incident narrowly escaped damage.
They had been investigating a report of a drink driver in Fivemiletown and attended an handle within the Tattenabuddagh Lane space simply after midnight as a part of their enquiries.
Whereas on the handle, a person in his 20s tried to evade police in a tractor. He rammed three police autos inflicting in depth injury to all three autos.
The motive force (25) was later arrested on suspicion of tried homicide and stays in custody right now.
Detective Inspector Snoddy stated: "This was a reckless and cowardly incident which has left three of our police autos off the highway affecting our service supply within the Mid Ulster space. There's additionally the influence when it comes to our officers' welfare, in addition to the price of repairs to the automobile.
"If it weren't for our officers taking evasive motion to keep away from the oncoming tractor, I've little question that officers would have been severely injured or killed."
Detectives investigating the incident are interesting for info and might be contacted on 101 quoting reference 2000 23/09/22. A report can be made utilizing the web reporting kind through www.psni.police.uk/makeareport.
Alternatively, info might be offered to Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or on-line at www.crimestoppers-uk.org