When can NSW police use tasers?

arrival at the facility and approached them with it.

Reportedly, Nowland, who is 5'2" and weighs 43kg, was in a medical treatment room by herself at the time, travelling towards officers at a 'slow pace' on her walking frame.

Police have stated that they attempted to de-escalate the situation, asking her to drop the knife.

She was tasered twice, once in front of her chest, and once in the back.

NSW Assistant Police Commissioner, Peter Cotter said: "at the time she was Tasered she was approaching police, it is fair to say at a slow pace... She had a walking frame. But she had a knife."

Following the discharge of the taser, Nowland fell back and smashed her head, which has left her with a suspected fractured skull and 'brain bleed'.