{"id":407343,"date":"2026-01-12T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407343\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:52:10","slug":"nsw-police-inspector-amy-scott-praised-for-bondi-junction-stabbing-response-diagnosed-with-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407343\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott, praised for Bondi Junction stabbing response, diagnosed with breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott, who was praised for bringing the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing attack to an end, has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer.<\/p>\n

Police Legacy NSW, the NSW Police Force’s charity, said their “beautiful friend and colleague” was selfless and compassionate, and needed “the strength, compassion, and support of her community”.<\/p>\n

“Just as she is so much more than her diagnosis, she is so much more than ‘the hero of Bondi Junction,'” the organisation said.<\/p>\n

“She is a loving wife, mother of two young boys, devoted to serving the community through her work as a NSW Police Officer, and widely known as selfless, compassionate, and kind.”<\/p>\n

The charity has set up a fundraiser to “ease the financial burden” for Inspector Scott and her family.<\/p>\n

“She is fiercely independent and the first to champion others. Whilst she is being well supported by her family, friends and colleagues, Amy has a long uphill battle ahead to beat this insidious disease,” Police Legacy NSW said.<\/p>\n

NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley said “the whole police family are suffering at the moment with the knowledge of her diagnosis”.<\/p>\n

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Amy Scott’s colleagues have rallied around her. (Supplied: NSW government)<\/p>\n

Scott an ‘absolute champion’<\/p>\n

Inspector Scott was labelled a hero and credited with saving lives after she pursued Joel Cauchi through Bondi Junction Westfield after a stabbing rampage in April 2024, which ended in the deaths of six people.<\/p>\n

She was subsequently recognised with the Commissioner’s Valour Award.<\/p>\n

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Amy Scott was recognised with the Commissioner’s Valour Award for her role in stopping the Bondi Junction Westfield attack. (ABC News: Adam Griffiths)<\/p>\n

On Monday, NSW Premier Chris Minns said he spoke to Inspector Scott a few weeks ago, and he was “devastated” by her cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n

“She is a genuine, bona fide Australian hero and someone we owe a huge debt of gratitude to, not just because of her heroic actions in Bondi Junction of a couple of years ago, but also she’s been an inspiration to the exact same officers that attended the [Bondi Beach] terrorism event on the 14th of December,” he said.<\/p>\n

“If anyone deserves a break, it’s Amy, and we just wish her the very best. She’s an absolute champion.”<\/p>\n

Previously, at the coronial inquest into the attack, Inspector Scott credited her colleagues for their bravery during the incident.<\/p>\n

“Whilst I was the person who faced Joel, those same officers [went in too] \u2026 I just want to acknowledge their courage and bravery,” she said.<\/p>\n

“As tragic as that day was, it restored my faith in humanity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott, who was praised for bringing the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing attack to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[215957,215959,215958,64,63,215961,44,2733,215960],"class_list":["post-407343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-amy-scott","tag-amy-scott-cancer","tag-amy-scott-cancer-diagnosis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bondi-junction-stabbing-cancer","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-police-amy-scott-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407343","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=407343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}