A police officer was hit with an umbrella after asking a woman to stop eating unpaid-for food items from a Dunedin cafe on Thursday.
Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond said police were called to Wild Bean Cafe at BP Connect Bays Junction at 12.30pm after a 59-year-old woman refused to leave after being asked to by staff.
The woman also refused to leave when asked by police and, while they were speaking to her, she struck the officer with an umbrella, Snr Sgt Bond said.
She was arrested, charged with assaulting a police officer and will appear in court at a later date.
