A woman has been taken to hospital after a police pursuit of an allegedly stolen car came to a dramatic end in a crowded Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne’s CBD.

Police arrested four teenage boys after the pursuit began on the Eastern Freeway in Doncaster and ended in the mall outside Myer on Monday afternoon.

Police say a pedestrian was hit on Bourke Street as officers pursued an allegedly stolen car. Four boys have been arrested. Credit: Tony Totta

Video footage posted online shows a white SUV stationary in the middle of the mall, surrounded by tactical police officers and with its windscreen smashed.

Callers to radio station 3AW described dozens of police cars descending on the CBD and a police helicopter hovering over head.

“I’ve never seen so many police cars in my life,” calle

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