A Sunshine Coast police boss has spectacularly interrupted a press conference to put a crunching tackle on a man who had allegedly made unwelcome comments to a young woman nearby.

Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards was speaking to media at the Maroochydore Police Station when a man wearing a red hooded jumper appeared behind him, chased by another man who was yelling “you better get running, run, run, run!”

Det Snr Sgt Edwards stopped mid-sentence, turned around and dove for the man’s ankles, tackling him to the ground.

Det Snr Sgt Edwards dives for the man's ankles. (9News)

"He was being inappropriate to my daughter," Kevin Scells said, after the man was tackled. (9News)

The man is arrested by four police officers. (9News)

“He was being inappropriate to my daughter,” the pursuer explained, as four police officers appeared and arrested the man.

“I just came out from here,” the man said, as he was led back to the Watch House next door.

“Well you’re going back in,” an officer replied.

The man was taken back into the Watch House. (9News)

Kevin Scells told 9News he chased the man because he had made inappropriate comments to his 19-year-old daughter.

“I was just sitting in the car and this man’s said a few inappropriate things to my daughter and I’ve just reacted by chasing him up the road and it just happened to be you guys were here at the same time,” he said.

Charlotte Scells said the man had approached her twice.

“He just asked me if I was single, saying that I was beautiful and he was going to buy me stuff. I just told him to go away and I wasn’t interested,” she said.

Charlotte Scells said the man approached her twice making inappopriate comments. (9News)

The man interrupts the press conference, expressing his disapproval of police. (9News)

Earlier the same man had interrupted the press conference, expressing his disapproval of police.

Det Snr Sgt Edwards suffered grazes to his head in the scuffle.

He said the man was arrested for public nuisance, the same charge that had led him to be at the police precinct in the first place.

“You never know what (the job) will bring,” he said, admitting the last time he made an arrest of that nature was “quite a few years ago”.

Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards suffered grazes to his head in the scuffle. (9News)