A senior police officer and security guards have been stationed at the hospital where tasered great grandmother Clare Nowland is fighting for life.
The Cooma District Hospital, in southeastern NSW, has ramped up security in the wake of national and even international uproar over the incident.
Senior Constable Kristian White, the officer who allegedly fired the Taser, has been stood down on full pay as investigations into the incident at the Yallambie Lodge nursing home continue.
Daily Mail Australia understands Snr Const White, who has been in the force for more than 10 years, is at least 25cm taller and three times the size of the diminutive 157cm pensioner who weighs just 43kg.
Ms Nowland, a 95-year-old dementia sufferer was in a walking frame and carrying a knife when she was blasted with a Taser at her aged care home about 4am on Wednesday.
The blast caused Ms Rowland to fall and hit her head, leaving her with a bleeding on the brain.
She is now undergoing end-of-life care.
Superintendent John Klepczarek, the Monaro police area commander, is stationed outside her hospital room.
‘He’s been there a fair bit answering the family if they had any questions,’ the spokesman said.
Family friend, Andrew Thaler, also said private security guards had been deployed at the hospital and are ‘vetting everyone who wants to visit Ms Nowland’.
Clare Nowland is now receiving end of life care in Cooma District Hospital, in southern NSW , after she was critically injured last Wednesday morning

Senior Constable Kristian White has been stood down pending investigations (above)
Mr Thaler has made repeated calls for Police Commissioner Karen Webb to sit with Mrs Nowland’s family for the difficult task of watching the body worn footage of her being Tasered as she slowly approached officers on her walking frame.
Daily Mail Australia has asked the NSW Health Minister Ryan Park and the NSW Health department to confirm that the hospital security detail is in place and why.
Mr Park’s office said the it was up to NSW Health to answer these questions because they were ‘operational’ and it was ‘inappropriate’ to comment while an active police investigation was being carried out.
However, NSW Health did not respond to the questions.
Revelations of security and and a senior police officer stationed at her ward come as the NSW Police Commissioner comes under pressure for refusing watch confronting bodycam footage her two officers took of the Tasering, saying she did not want the video ‘tainting’ her views of the case.
Webb also claimed on Monday morning that an initial police statement about Ms Nowland had omitted mention of the Taser in order to protect the family.
The initial statement released from NSW Police – and approved by the NSW police commissioner on Wednesday – only revealed there had been an ‘interaction’ between the great grandmother and police.

Tasered great grandmother Clare Nowland is reportedly surrounded by an extraordinary security detail at Cooma District Hospital, with some measures resembling the kind of protection for accused criminals
Ms Nowland was tasered by cops after she took a serrated steak knife from the kitchen into a treatment room.
Police and paramedics tried to get her to drop the knife before the male senior constable fired his Taser once as she tottered towards him and his partner.
Ms Nowland fell and struck her head on the floor, leaving her with a fractured skull and brain bleed.
2GB Radio host Ben Fordham grilled NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb on Monday, asking why the original statement did not inform the public what had really happened.
‘It was necessary for us to make sure that the family were aware of what the circumstances were,’ Commissioner Webb responded.
‘We didn’t want the family to hear on radio and TV what had happened to their mum, so we had to be a bit sensitive to that and when we were able to talk about it, we did.’
The broadcaster then questioned if the decision to not mention the Tasering was really about protecting Ms Nowland’s family, or ‘hiding something that might be embarrassing or shameful for the police?’.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb defended the decision to leave out the fact Ms Nowland had been Tasered by officers when an original statement on the matter was released
‘We are not hiding. I want answers as do the family,’ the commissioner said, adding she had seen the original statement put out.
‘I thought it was important that we were mindful of the family.’
Fordham then asked if she stood by the decision to leave out the Tasering in the media release – which she admitted she had seen before it was sent out.
‘Yes I do, as I said the Nowland family deserve to learn from police what happened rather than hear about it in the media,’ Commissioner Webb said.
The commissioner said she would not be watching police body-worn footage of the incident, and said her thoughts were with Ms Nowland’s family.
But Fordham said it was her duty to watch what unfolded.
‘You’re the most senior officer in NSW, you will make the final decision about whether this officer remains in the force, I know it’s not going to be pretty but in the end I think it’s your duty to watch it commissioner,’ he said.
Commissioner Webb said she might watch the footage but needed to do so after receiving all statements and evidence about the incident.
‘I want answers like everyone else does,’ she said.

Mrs Nowland’s family is now demanding answers as to what happened at Yallambee Lodge nursing home (pictured) last Wednesday
Local priest, Father Mark Croker, visited Mrs Nowland on Sunday and held a Catholic mass at her hospital bedside. He said although Mrs Nowland had dementia, she had been in good form and was able to hold a conversation.
‘The thing with Clare is the dementia hadn’t completely taken hold, you could still have a conversation with her … she might get a bit confused, but that’s an age thing,’ he told the Daily Telegraph.
It’s understood the 95-year-old is in and out of consciousness and her beathing has shallowed, as her eight children and their families were taking turns speaking to her.
The officer who fired the electric shock weapon joined the force 12 years ago and has since been taken off active duty.
The critical incident investigation has been elevated to ‘level one’ because of Ms Nowland suffering an injury that could lead to her death.
Detectives from the State Homicide Squad and Law Enforcement Conduct Commission are investigating what happened and if the forced used was appropriate.

Clare Nowland (pictured skydiving) is peaceful and comfortable in end of life care, according to a local priest
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