Stolen vehicle driver sought after police car 'repeatedly rammed'

Police are looking for the driver of a stolen vehicle that repeatedly rammed and extensively damaged a police car in Auckland in the early hours of this morning.

The vehicle was signalled to stop at around 2.20am in Mount Wellington.

It did, before reversing at speed into the police car, causing "extensive damage" and "rendering the vehicle immobile".

Police said one passenger in the vehicle had been arrested and that there were "positive lines of inquiry" to locate the driver.

Neither of the police officers in the car were injured in the incident.

An internal police document released to 1News earlier this year revealed the number of intentional rammings of police staff and vehicles amounted to one every second day across the country.

Deputy Police Commissioner Tania Kura said offenders were more brazen than ever when it comes to fleeing police.

"People who've got stolen vehicles or evidence in their vehicle that they don't want to be caught. Sometimes people actually just want to hurt us because we are police people."

Police Association President Chris Cahill said: "An officer a month is hospitalised because of an injury in a ramming - that's not minor injuries - this is hospitalised."