New South Wales Police are under scrutiny for taser use after mentally ill man died in police custody.

 

Reports found only one taser was used on the thirty year old man, however there has been no confirmation of how many times or for how long he was tased.

 

The latest report from 2012 revealed a third of people tasered by police suffered from a mental illness, and three-quarters were unarmed.

 

The NSW police have not released statistics into stun gun use for six years, while Stephen Blanks, President of the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties says the state suffers from a “lack of transparency.”