Editorial - Stop the shooting: It is time for partnerships between police and mental health nurses

Title
Editorial - Stop the shooting: It is time for partnerships between police and mental health nurses
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Usher, Kim
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9686-5003
Email: kusher@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kusher
Trueman, Scott
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.1111/inm.12149
UNE publication id
une:19152
Abstract
Images of a young girl holding a knife were recently broadcast across television stations in Australia. The story described how Courtney Topic, a 22-year-old woman from the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, was tasered and shot dead by police only 5 min from her family home. Prior to the shooting, Courtney, diagnosed in the past with Asperger's syndrome, left a takeaway restaurant and entered a street where she was pictured holding a soft drink cup in one hand and a large knife in the other. Minutes later, she was dead. Courtney leaves behind devastated parents and three siblings. This occurred on 10 February 2015.
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Citation
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 24(3), p. 191-192
ISSN
1447-0349
1445-8330
Start page
191
End page
192

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