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Police fatal shooting raises mental health questions

A man believed to have been suffering a mental health episode has been shot by police, after a six-hour siege where he attempted to stab an officer with glass.

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Police should step back in mental health calls: review

A review has found NSW police officers are not always the right people to respond to mental health crises in the community, sparking calls for urgent action.

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Coroner says NSW police should force tactical officers to wear body cameras after man shot and killed

Inquest into death of Todd McKenzie in Taree siege finds benefits of mandating the devices ‘far outweigh any difficulties’

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Police operation in which NSW man shot dead during psychotic episode was ‘flawed’, inquest finds

Todd McKenzie’s death prompts calls from deputy coroner for summit into police responses to mental health incidents

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Break pattern of mental health police killings: coroner

Police killings of people with mental health needs can no longer be addressed individually when a pattern of deaths has become so clear, a coroner has found.

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Scrutiny over NSW police handling of people in crisis

A program aimed at de-escalating police incidents involving people in mental crisis needs reform, the NSW mental health minister concedes.

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Parents haunted by sound of police shooting their son

Todd McKenzie was experiencing psychosis when he was shot dead by police after a nine-hour stand-off. But a coronial inquest has brought more pain than answers.

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Bereaved family calls for probe into police shootings

The family of Todd McKenzie, who died in a police siege, has called for a royal commission into deaths of mental health patients at the hands of police.

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NSW police must speak with mental health experts rather than shoot our loved ones, stepfather says

Exclusive: New figures show on average 10 people in mental health distress die each year during interactions with state police

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‘If they don’t comply, they die’: families demand royal commission after fatal NSW police shootings

Exclusive: Premier says an inquiry into use of force against vulnerable people isn’t necessary, despite four fatalities in as many monthss

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Another tragic death shows police should not be first responders in mental health crises

Dealing with a person in the midst of a difficult mental health episode is a job that requires medical expertise

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Cop involved in shooting of mentally ill man apologises

An officer who helped coordinate the police response that led to the fatal shooting of a mentally ill man has apologised to the victim's family.

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Cops who shot mentally ill man did not wear bodycams

Specialist officers, who were not wearing body cameras, fatally shot Todd McKenzie at a Taree house in 2019 after a nine-hour siege with the mentally ill man.

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Cops 'failed' in fatal stand-off with mentally ill man

A cop who oversaw a colleague mocking a mentally ill man before police fatally shot him said mistakes were made but maintained the officer did a great job.

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Cop who shot mentally ill man 'left with no choice'

The tactical police officer who shot Todd McKenzie three times said there was "not much else I could do" to subdue the mentally ill man.

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Dad regrets not advising cops before son's death

Todd McKenzie's father says if he knew what police were going to do he could have saved his mentally ill son from being gunned down by officers.

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Police mocked then fatally shot mentally ill man

An officer disparaged a knife-wielding man, diagnosed with schizophrenia, before a police unit stormed his home and shot him three times, an inquest has heard.

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Body-worn video played at inquest into fatal shooting of Taree man Todd McKenzie by police

A former senior constable who spoke to a Taree man for more than three hours before he was fatally shot tells a court he regrets some of his comments.

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NSW coroner finds police decision to enter home 'unnecessary' in 'preventable' shooting death of Ian Fackender

Ian Fackender, who suffered from schizophrenia, had intense fears about emergency service sirens and was fatally shot by police in 2017. A coroner says there were many steps that could have been taken to reduce the risk to Mr Fackender and the officers.

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