A man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was stabbed during a welfare check on the Victorian coast.
The senior constable was stabbed about 4.30pm on Monday at a home on Golden Beach Way at Torquay, after the man allegedly rushed at the attending officers with a knife.
Pepper spray was used to subdue him but an officer was stabbed a number of times, Victoria Police allege.
The 49-year-old, from Torquay, was also charged with assaulting an emergency service worker on duty.
He was remanded in custody to appear in Geelong Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
The police officer remains in hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
