On April 13, 2024, police inspector Amy Scott courageously responded to a brutal stabbing incident in a Sydney shopping centre without a partner or protective gear. As the first unit on the scene, she experienced fear and a sense of impending doom as she prepared for a potentially fatal encounter with an armed assailant, Joel Cauchi, who killed six and injured ten. Despite the heightened risk she faced, including a 60% to 70% chance of non-survival based on her training, Scott bravely made the decision to confront the threat head-on, demonstrating remarkable courage in a chaotic situation.
In her active armed offender training, officers were told they had a 60% to 70% chance of non-survival and that is if you are partnered up and vested up, and I was neither of those.
Fear made way for nausea. Because, in my head, I had resigned myself to the fact that I was probably going to die.
People were screaming: He's killing people, he's hurting people. I then knew I was dealing with an active armed offender.
My initial plan was to execute a dynamic entry, with other officers entering the centre at multiple points. But then I knew I was going in alone.
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