Qld cop's actions 'acceptable': court

Colleagues of a Queensland police officer accused of using excessive force have defended his actions during an adrenaline-fuelled arrest on the Gold Coast.

Senior Constable Aaron Minns, 29, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of common assault over a spate of alleged incidents between September 2014 and January 2015.

The Brisbane Magistrates Court on Wednesday heard Minns, a member of the Rapid Action Patrol squad, was one of several officers called to Mudgeeraba after a car chase in September 2014.

The driver, Todd Schinkel, fled after crashing and was tracked down by a police dog.

Minns allegedly struck him multiple times, placed his boot on the man's head and applied pressure using his knee during the arrest.

Constable Stephen Griffin, who was on the opposite side of Schinkel's body to Minns, recalled police feared the suspect was armed.

"I do remember hearing a sound consistent with flesh on flesh contact," he said.

Under cross-examination by defence counsel Stephen Zillman, Griffin told the court Minns placed a boot on the suspect's head.

"I would say, in the circumstances, absolutely that would be acceptable," he said.

"We were all acting with a lot of adrenaline."

Senior Constable Joseph Alofipo, of the dog squad, said Minns came in with "a knee to the head of Schinkel".

"I saw him just fall on one knee to the head and he was pretty much on top of him," he said.

Another complainant, tattoo artist Alex Tony Soppa, alleged via video link from a NSW jail that he was "knocked out" by Minns during an arrest outside a Nerang bank in January 2015.

"All I remember is getting up and getting hit by something," he said.

"It was like a haze or a dream."

Soppa denied throwing a punch during his failed escape attempt.

He admitted smoking ice the day before.

A third complainant, Jozef Gaber, was allegedly assaulted by Minns when his head was slammed into a tiled floor on one occasion and he was punched on another.

Gaber denied threatening to kill Minns' family and said the officer had "no right" to touch him after storming his house while he was naked on the toilet.

He insisted the glass objects he was making with a blow torch in his garage were not ice pipes, but glass canes in time for Christmas 2014.

The hearings, before Magistrate Noel Nunan, continue on Thursday.