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NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb defends not watching body-cam footage of 95yo being tasered

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb says officers are not often called to incidents at aged-care homes. (ABC News: Harriet Tatham)

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb says it "takes courage" not to view the body-cam footage of an elderly woman being tasered, and that she wants "a complete picture" of the incident before she looks at it.

Commissioner Webb on Monday defended her decision not to watch the moment 95-year-old Clare Nowland was tasered by an officer at an aged-care home in the NSW Snowy Mountains.

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