NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said the officer confronted the offender on level five of the shopping centre.

“As she continued to walk quickly behind him to catch up with him,he turned,faced her,raised a knife. She discharged a firearm and that person is now deceased,” he said.

Seconds after the man crumpled to the flood,confronting vision from the scene shows the heroic officer and another uniformed police officer dragging the man away from the glass wall of the Eckersley art supply shop,and beginning CPR.

NSW Ambulance officers took over the man’s care after he was shot,but he died at the scene.

In 2019,Scott was recognised by the Rotary Club of Kings Cross in 2019,when she won the Demonstrated Courage and Devotion to Duty award.

The officer is “doing well under the circumstances”,Webb said.

“She showed enormous courage and bravery. She will need to be interviewed formally. We just talked about[if] she’s OK,her family is OK. She will be interviewed tomorrow,” Webb said on Saturday night.

The officer was alone when she confronted the man,which,Webb said,“is not unusual,for a senior officer to be out supervising and leading troops”.

If you or anyone you know needs help,call Lifeline on 13 11 14 (and seelifeline.org.au) or Beyond Blue on1300 22 4636 (and seebeyondblue.org.au).

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