The incident happened just before 10pm on Saturday 14 November in the Glenabbey Estate area, when officers on patrol were approaching the Skeoge Link and spotted a red Mercedes C220 appearing to be diffing at a roundabout, police said. The car subsequently appeared to lose control and came to a stop.
Officers recognised the vehicle as one that had failed to stop for them earlier that evening while engaging in similar behaviour in the same area. They approached and activated their emergency lights, but the Mercedes then accelerated towards the stationary police car, ramming it head on.
Two officers exited their vehicle and attempted to arrest the driver, who continued to ram the police car several times as they tried to remove him. The Mercedes also reversed into a third vehicle owned by a member of the public. After repeatedly ramming the vehicles, the driver drove towards one of the officers before making off on the wrong side of the carriageway towards the Buncrana Road. It then collided with another vehicle before exiting the roundabout.
"This was incredibly reckless and dangerous behaviour which resulted in three police officers being injured and attending hospital for treatment, with a police vehicle and two members of the public's vehicles also damaged," a PSNI spokesperson said.
Police are appealing for witnesses, dash-cam footage or CCTV and ask anyone with information to contact them quoting reference 1434 of 14/11/26. Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously.