this is the care home in cooma where clare nowland, who uses a walking frame and suffers from dementiasered when she approached officers with a steak knife. the incident has sparked an outcry from the community who say the response was disproportionate. the new south wales police chief says an investigation is under way. at the time she was tasered, she was approaching police, but it is fair to say at a slow pace. she had a walking frame. but she had a knife. an investigation has commenced and that's called a critical incident investigation. given what was before us at midday on wednesday, this investigation was nominated as a leveli critical incident. if a threshold is met where it changes from being a departmental issue into a criminal issue, we are certainly mature enough and transparent enough as an organisation to do what has to be done. our sydney correspondent, phil mercer, brought us more details on this story. two police officers were called to this nursing home in the town of cooma in the state of new south wales. it is a relatively short distance to the national capital canb

this is the care home in cooma where clare nowland — who uses a walking frame and suffers from dementiacers with a steak knife. the incident has sparked an outcry from the community, who say the response was disproportionate. the new south wales police chief says an investigation is under way. she had a walking frame, but she had a knife. it is a critical incident investigation. given what was before those at midday on wednesday, this investigation was nominated as a level one critical incident. if a threshold is met, where it changes from being a departmental issue to a criminal issue, we are certainly mature enough and transparent enough to do what has to be done. 0ur sydney correspondent phil mercer brought us more details on this story. two police officers were called to the nursing home in new south wales, it is a short distance to the national capital. they found a 95—year—old woman who are taking a serrated steak knife from the kitchen and was brandishing that knife. the two officers and the care home staff members tried to calm the situation, but according to the police, this el