Australia: Police officer who tasered 95-year-old woman suspended

Police australian reported this Tuesday the suspension of employment of the officer who reduced with a taser a 95-year-old woman with senile dementia who was carrying a knife inside the nursing home, and who after receiving two shocks is in critical condition.

“Police continue to investigate this serious incident.”, the police said in a brief statement. New south Walesjurisdiction where the incident happened last Wednesday, indicating that the suspension is for an indefinite period of time and while he will continue to receive his salary.

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The officer, with 12 years of experience and whose identity has not been released, went with a colleague to the nursing home in yallambeeIn the town of cooma -about 430 kilometers southwest of sydney-, in response to an emergency call because one of the patients was “navy” with a knife.

When the old woman, identified as Clare Nowlandrefused to drop the knife and approached “slowly” in her walker at the agents, the officer shot her with his taser pistol in the chest and back, causing the grandmother, who weighed about 43 kilograms and was 1.57 centimeters tall, to fall and hit her head.

The woman remains in a hospital in critical condition.

As a result of the incident, which has shocked the country, the authorities opened a protocol investigation.

“Part of the investigations into the Ms Nowland incident will focus on the officer’s background”, assured today the commissioner of the Police of New South Wales, Karen Webbto the Australian television network Nine.

As published last night by the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, the officer who subdued the old woman already made an illegal arrest in 2020 of a man who was allegedly drugged, although he emerged unscathed.

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In addition, Webb was harshly criticized after assuring over the weekend that she had not wanted to see the images of the incident, recorded with the agents’ body cameras, although she did want to hear it, and assuring that they would not broadcast the video of what happened.

This incident has once again highlighted the controversial use of tasers by the Australian police, questioned by organizations that guarantee rights such as International Amnesty.

In 2012, the Brazilian student Roberto Curti lost his life in Sydney after receiving 14 electric shocks from the Police, in an incident in which a court in the country found four officers guilty in 2014 for the excessive use of force that led to the death of Curti, who suffered a psychotic episode after ingesting a psychotropic substance.

Source: Elcomercio

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