Karen Webb says police can be trusted to investigate themselves, as the officer who Tasered an elderly woman is supported by colleagues.
y on Wednesday night one week after the Tasering incident.
His commander visited White and his family earlier this week. “He is being supported at the local level,” Webb told theIn the interview, Webb described the Cooma incident as isolated, unique and not representative of the way officers “behave day to day”. When asked whether the investigation had taken longer because the alleged perpetrator was a police officer, Webb replied: “We’re conducting this investigation like we would any other investigation in this circumstance.”
after being Tasered more than a dozen times, when he expressed doubts “there would be any informed person who believes that it is appropriate for police to investigate themselves”.“There are too many failings in such a system,” Saidi said. “The effectiveness of the current system can be seen by matters such as how few police are actually charged for unlawful use of force.”
Webb said critical incident investigations used police from further afield. In this case, homicide detectives were involved, and officers from Cooma and Queanbeyan were not.
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