Clare Nowland Cooma: Taser use on 95yo could be in breach of police rules
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The use of 95 -year -old woman in an elderly nursing home in incident that struggles for life may be contrary to the police rules. When the police arrive at the old care facility, he claims that he was still armed with a knife. When officers could not let them drop knife, an experienced police fired shock gun caused Ms. Nowland to fall and hit her head.Currently, "consciousness comes comes out" with his family in hospital. Clare Nowland was shocked by the police at an elderly care house in Cooma. Given together When taster was fired, he said he approached the police officers and moved using walking frame and moves at "slow speed". According to manual on the use of NSW police force, device should not be used on elderly or disabled people unless there are exceptional cases ". Handbook defines exceptional situations as “a reasonable person to believe that a fast and unusual action is necessary to prevent actual physical harm against himself or others”. If a Tail is exploded under "exceptional conditions", they should be specified in report civil servant regarding incident to be examined as part of police investigation into actions officer. The table was brought to help investigation and the body camera s of event, defined as "confrontation", will be examined. NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Peter Cotter refused to give information about whether the police officer who thrown the Taser on Friday will face penal offenses or may be. Police officer who carried out the attack, was dismissed while the investigation was in progress. On Friday, NSW police deputy commissioner Peter Cotter stressed that investigation was taken seriously, but rejected questions many times that the senior officer who fired TASER would face charges against incident. "I'm not an inspector, I'm not in a position to talk about whether this officer will be in a criminal complaint," he said. At end of press conference, Mr. Cotter was asked following question "What are possible charges that officer may face?" Cotter then thanked journalist for bringing the question to agenda, but warned him not to continue asking questions. "I know where you want to arrive with it, but in absolute justice to everyone who is here, I will not talk about this special officer and any accusation," he said. "Let me soften this a little for you. But please don't ask again. Mr. Cotter told journalists, table team and critical event team, investigation of investigation, he said. On Friday, "The only thing I can say is a very lively and serious investigation ... The table is investigated," he said. NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said on Friday, the issue was "extremely serious", he said.