A Saint Joseph police officer was injured when a suspect in a disturbance call resisted arrest Tuesday night.

Sergeant Brett Kelly says officers initially responded to a disturbance at the Countryside Lane mobile home park between Pear and Easton Road shortly before 7:30. They caught up with the suspect at 22nd and Garfield.

Sergeant Kelly says the suspect became uncooperative and struggled with the officers.  One officer received a leg injury.  She was taken to Mosaic Life Care where she was treated and released.

Capt. Jeff Wilson said there are procedures in place to handle situations when an officer is injured.

“Our procedure is when an officer is injured they report their injury to their supervisor and if necessary in some cases the officer may be transported to the hospital,” Wilson said. “If there’s a suspect involved and it’s a case where for instance resisting arrest or some other altercation takes place and during the course of that the officer is injured it’s very likely that the case will be submitted to the prosecutor for review of some sort of charges.”

Police said in this case the suspect was taken into custody for investigation of resisting arrest and possible other charges.  The investigation continues.