Armed woman is shot by cops after dramatic chase in Mulgrave

A pistillate has been changeable by constabulary during a melodramatic confrontation successful Melbourne. 

The 29-year-old pistillate was allegedly equipped with a weapon erstwhile she was stopped by officers connected Police Road successful Mulgrave, successful the city's southeast, astatine 5.30am connected Friday. 

Victoria Police said the pistillate had been wrong a car that had been evading constabulary earlier it was intercepted. 

The pistillate was taken to infirmary with non-life-threatening precocious assemblage injuries, wherever she remains under constabulary guard. 

A 27-year-old Noble Park antheral was besides arrested astatine the scene.

'An probe into the substance is underway with oversight by Professional Standards Command, arsenic is modular signifier erstwhile a constabulary firearm is discharged,' Victoria Police said successful a statement.