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Speaker 1: Sydney's one oh one point seven Wsfair.

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Speaker 2: With your seven o'clock update. Good morning, I'm Natasha Lee.

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Speaker 2: An elderly dementia patient tasered by police and a nursing

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Speaker 2: home in the Snowy Mountains is not expected to survive

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Speaker 2: the ordeal. Police were reportedly called to the home after

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Speaker 2: staff found the ninety five year old woman by her

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Speaker 2: walking frame and holding a knife on Wednesday. It's believed

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Speaker 2: the woman was tasered after police were unable to disarm her.

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Speaker 2: A major police review is now looking into the incidents.

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Speaker 1: The President of Disability Australia, Nicole Lee, has described it

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Speaker 1: as a shocking incident, claiming officers should have handled the

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Speaker 1: incident with compassion.

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Speaker 3: The local council that runs the nursing home says it's

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Speaker 3: supporting our staff, residents and families during this difficult time.

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Speaker 3: Miss Noland is well known and much loved here in Cooma.

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Speaker 3: This is her fifteen years ago, skydiving to celebrate her

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Speaker 3: eightieth birthday.

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Speaker 1: Jem thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: She was also a member of the Koma Golf Club

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Speaker 3: until age meant she couldn't play anymore, and a regular

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Speaker 3: at the local Catholic Church said, Patrick's all police would

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Speaker 3: say today was a critical incident. Investigation has been launched

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Speaker 3: after an elderly woman sustained injuries during an interaction with police.

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Speaker 3: According to their own guidelines, an officer can use their

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Speaker 3: taser if violent resistance is occurring or imminent, or an

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Speaker 3: officer is in danger of being overpowered. The key question

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Speaker 3: now is why was a frail, ninety five year old

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Speaker 3: great grandmother considered such a threat to herself or others

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Speaker 3: that highly trained police needed a taser to stop her.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you.