A police officer is recovering in hospital after he was stabbed in a soured arrest after an alleged spear was thrown at officers and a hatchet was seized from a home in Sydney.

The 23-year-old officer awaited surgery overnight and remains in Liverpool Hospital in a stable condition.

Officers attended a home on Werombi Road, Grasmere, in Sydney’s southwest about 5.20pm Friday upon reports a person had breached an apprehended violence order.

Police attempted to arrest a 20-year-old man before he allegedly threw a spear at officers.

He then allegedly stabbed the officer in the leg.

Other officers tasered the man before taking him to Narellan Police Station.

Paramedics treated the probationary constable at the scene, before he was airlifted to Liverpool hospital in a serious but stable c

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