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Officer Admits Care Home Taser Joke ‘Doesn’t Look Good’ After 92-Year-Old’s Death

The officers could be dismissed if a panel finds their use of force breached professional standards after Sussex Police referred the case to the IOPC.

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PC Rachel Comotto, 37, discharged the weapon at Donald Burgess, an amputee with dementia, after he was reported to have threatened carers with a…

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Two agents were called to intervene in a conflict generated by a 92-year-old at the senior residence where he lived in Sussex, UK. His work is being subject to a disciplinary investigation.

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Two police officers in Great Britain are accused of being overzealous in the line of duty, causing, according to the case file, a very serious injury to an elderly man. They are being referred to trial on the grounds that because of their actions, a 92-year-old man was taken to hospital and never recovered from the incident.

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