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Why do general duties police officers need to carry Tasers? What purpose do they serve and do they improve outcomes in any way?

Clare Nowland fell and fractured her skull after she was tasered by police during an incident at a Cooma nursing home last week.

Clare Nowland, 95, is in a New South Wales, Australia, hospital after Tasered by a senior constable. Nowland, who has dementia, is a nursing home resident. The constable had been called to that nursing home because Nowland had a knife. "At the time she was Tasered she was approaching police.…

The use of a Taser to subdue a 95-year-old dementia patient at an aged care home in Cooma, New South Wales, last week is yet another sickening example of what can go wrong when police rely too heavily on force to resolve challenging situations.

Dr Kay Patterson questions whether mental health team would be more appropriate while David Shoebridge says police tools are ‘wrong resource’

Confronting footage of a frail great-grandmother being tasered by police could soon be made public after a push by the NSW opposition.

The NSW opposition has called for footage of a grandmother being tasered to be publicly released, as the government says the issue is being politicised.

A police officer who tasered a 95-year-old woman at a care home in Australia has been suspended from duty.

Great-grandmother Clare Nowland is on end of life care in hospital after sustaining critical injuries in the incident