Despite recent high-profile assaults against police officers, there is no cause for concern and no evidence of a trend, Southern district commander Superintendent Andrew Coster says.
Police data suggested the number of assaults against police in central Dunedin last year was well down on the previous year.
''The recent spate, whilst highly unfortunate, does not appear to be part of a longer-term trend,'' Supt Coster said.
''Any attack on another member of the community, whether they be a police officer or not, is completely unacceptable.
"Police staff are continuously working within our communities to make them as safe as they can be, and this sort of attack not only harms the officers involved, but the community as well.''
Police were constantly evaluating situations where force was deployed to improve safety and procedure, he said.
Last month, members of the public, pepper spray and a Taser were needed to stop an assault on a police officer in Alexandra.
It followed assaults on police in December last year.
A man kicked an officer and broke a patrol car window after police were called to a domestic incident in Brockville, Dunedin, in late December.
Earlier that month, two officers were assaulted in the Octagon while trying to arrest a 19-year-old Dunedin man. A male and a female officer were assaulted in the ''cowardly and disgraceful'' attack.
