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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Catie McLeod and Tamsin Rose

NSW police fail to deliver mental health crisis review amid scrutiny over latest shooting death

Police Commissioner Karen Webb
NSW police commissioner, Karen Webb, said last year there was ‘certainly an appetite that we need to consider what we could do differently’. Photograph: Richard Milnes/Shutterstock

New South Wales police have failed to hand a promised review of the way they respond to mental health crises to the government, as pressure again mounts on the force to enact reforms after the fatal shooting of a mentally unwell man.

Alexander Stuart Pinnock died on Wednesday after being shot at by multiple officers outside a medical clinic in Nowra on the south coast following an almost two-hour standoff that began when the 34-year-old pulled out a gun, police said.

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