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Officer's job under review, homicide squad called in, as police pledge robust review into elderly taser incident

The police officer involved in a critical incident where a 95-year-old woman was tasered remains on the job, despite having his duties under review.

Great-grandmother Clare Nowland is in a critical condition at Cooma Base Hospital after the incident at the Yallambee Lodge, where she fell and hit her head after being tasered by police. 

The senior constable with 12 years of experience was with his partner when they were called to the aged care home in Cooma, after reports of a patient with a knife.

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