It happened around 5 a.m. on Wheatley Street near Ferguson Way.
The officer was southbound on Wheatley when the SUV collided with the police vehicle, according to Houston police.
The officer was taken to a hospital for injuries, but the extent of those injuries wasn t immediately known. The other driver involved was being checked for signs of any impairment after the crash.
There was no word on an arrest or charges.
Friday s crash is the latest in a trend of incidents involving law enforcement vehicles.
On Sunday, a Houston police officer suffered minor injuries after colliding with a car that ran a stop sign in southeast Houston. Last month, five Montgomery County deputy constables were injured when a driver slammed into a deputy s cruiser on the Eastex Freeway, causing a chain-reaction crash.