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.

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.

Separate footage shows police pinning several people to the ground in Emporium Melbourne, another shopping centre on nearby Lonsdale Street.

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,” caller Crai

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