A MAN has been arrested after a struggle with police and kicking an officer in the head.

It has been reported a man, 39, was arrest after kicking an officer in the head when he was carrying out an arrest yesterday evening.

Essex Police officers arrived at an address in Gypsy Lane, Little Dunmow following reports of a man acting aggressively and a caravan being damaged.

As officers were carrying out an arrest, one reported he was kicked to the head.

The man was then arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, assaulting an emergency worker, and using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm, and distress.

He has since been released under investigation.