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Waterloo police say officer assaulted during DUI arrest in Kitchener over weekend

The crest on a Waterloo Regional Police officer's sleeve. Kevin Nielsen / Global News

Waterloo Regional Police say an officer was assaulted while making an arrest in Kitchener over the weekend.

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According to police, officers were called to Fischer-Hallman Road and Ottawa Street South in Kitchener at around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday after a resident reported seeing an impaired driver.

Officers arrested a man. They say that after the man was taken into custody, he assaulted an officer.

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Police say the officer was not injured as a result.

A 30-year-old man from Cambridge has been charged with impaired driving, failure to comply with a demand, and two counts of assaulting a peace officer.

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