Footage of a man walking through Melbourne’s city streets holding a gun and smoking a cigarette has emerged – captured moments before a wild police chase through the CBD ended in an arrest on Tuesday morning.

Tactical police swooped on the man during the morning peak hour, arresting him in a lane off Bourke Street, near Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar, following a string of alleged carjackings in Tarneit and North Melbourne.

Tactical police swooped on the man in a lane off Bourke Street, near Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar, following a string of alleged carjackings in Tarneit and North Melbourne.

Witnesses saw police swarming down laneways and a man running through an office building lobby.

Police said there was no ongoing risk to the public. The armed man was taken into custody to be interviewed

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