{"id":296450,"date":"2025-11-20T06:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296450\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:16:10","slug":"elderly-man-pepper-sprayed-at-nursing-home-police-response-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296450\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man pepper-sprayed at nursing home, police response under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW Police have pepper-sprayed an 87-year-old man at a nursing home in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/sydney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sydney&#039;s\">Sydney&#8217;s<\/a> south-west, a senior officers are now investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the aged care facility just before 8pm yesterday after a concern of welfare report was made about a resident.<\/p>\n<p>The man had allegedly threatened to harm other residents and himself while he was armed with what officers described as a &#8220;metal ornament&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/33f5a74e-70d5-406c-bbc5-b9ff7997bf42.png\"   alt=\"Police car stock photo\"\/>Police have confirmed the incident is now being investigated. (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly was swinging it at staff who were attempting to calm him down.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, staff locked themselves in a room for their own safety.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived at the home, they found the man in the foyer and still armed with the metal object.<\/p>\n<p>After refusing police direction to drop the weapon, he was pepper-sprayed.<\/p>\n<p>The man was ultimately restrained and assessed by paramedics before being taken to Campbeltown Hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries reported to other residents, staff or officers during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Camden Police Area Command is reviewing the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NSW Police have pepper-sprayed an 87-year-old man at a nursing home in Sydney&#8217;s south-west, a senior officers are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-296450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}