Police covered up taser trouble: report

NSW police have been accused of covering up misuses and abuses of Tasers during a 12-month trial used to justify arming every frontline officer with the weapon.

The Sydney Morning Herald says proof of the cover-up by the force and the state government is in internal police documents obtained after a year-long freedom-of-information battle.

The errors include the tasering of a handcuffed child at a juvenile detention centre, stunning two people covered in fuel, which could have been ignited, and the accidental tasering of a mother when the target was her son.

The Herald says the trial was merely to affirm a decision that had already been made.