Man arrested with nunchucks at WA MP Hannah Beazley's office

A 56-year-old man has been arrested and is assisting police with inquiries after allegedly making verbal threats while armed with "nunchucks" at the electorate office of state MP Hannah Beazley in Victoria Park.

Police responded to reports of a disturbance at the office on Albany Highway about 1:15pm, and found the man in nearby Bentley. No one was injured in the incident.

Ms Beazley said the man had allegedly demanded to see her, asking for her by name and "demanding access" while brandishing "home-made" nunchucks.

"But apart from that, when he was escalated, [they] couldn't actually understand what he was saying," she said.

Ms Beazley described the incident as a "confronting situation" and said her staff were "understandably shaken and upset".

"I immediately jumped to concerns for [my staff], and to be honest concerns of getting home and being able to have a conversation with my kids before they found out from anyone else," she said.

"Often times my local police say to me I should be calling them more often with some of the stuff we see in the electoral office."

"I'm a highly accessible member of parliament, I love that … every time I walk down the street I'm stopped for a conversation — I do not want to see that change at all."

Ms Beazley is the daughter of former federal opposition leader Kim Beazley.

A witness, Olivia Nelson, heard the incident from a business across the road.

"We heard some screaming, and that's not uncommon here along this strip," she said.

"But we heard it pretty prevalently so we went out there."

"And this guy was just screaming, cussing, going crazy."

Ms Nelson described the incident as "scary stuff".

"It was scary stuff," she said.

"He was much louder than the usual crowd that we see."

The incident comes after an attack on federal member for Indi Helen Haines, who remains in hospital after being run over outside her electoral office.

Premier Roger Cook said leaders of the state's political parties would meet with representatives from government, police and parliament to discuss safety issues.

"There's three elements here: there's the parliamentary precinct, where we're already undertaking significant upgrades in security," he said.

"There's electorate offices, and they've changed significantly since I was an electorate officer back in the 1990s, and obviously there's people's homes as well."