A man has taken his own life after NSW Police sex crime squad officers raided his Blue Mountains home.<\/p>\n
The incident happened after officers executed a search warrant at a home on Grose Street, Leura, at 7am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Police found the 41-year-old man inside a bedroom, where he self-harmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice immediately rendered first aid and sought assistance from NSW Ambulance paramedics, however, the man died at the scene,\u201d NSW Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cA critical incident team from Mt Druitt Police Area Command will lead the independent investigation team examining the circumstances surrounding the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
The officers from the sex crime squad and the public order and riot squad were executing a commonwealth search warrant.<\/p>\n
It was part of an operation called Strike Force Trawler, an ongoing covert investigation targeting online sexual abuse, grooming and child exploitation material.<\/p>\n
Officers were attending the property with the intention of arresting an individual.<\/p>\n
NSW Police has confirmed that a report will be prepared for the state coroner following the man\u2019s death, as well as an independent standards probe into police conduct during the incident.<\/p>\n
A cordon is now in place in the surrounding area as investigations continue.<\/p>\n
More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has taken his own life after NSW Police sex crime squad officers raided his Blue Mountains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39801,63608,46462,89066,92094,92096,43671,38094,37420,92092,36783,51642,37726,92101,92086,92099,92083,92097,62261,22,21,92089,37125,92085,92095,92076,37482,44506,33828,92100,33821,92091,92078,379,38081,2021,92088,25531,92084,92077,3121,31458,1047,16402,92082,92090,87513,37830,38099,39868,36531,92098,92087,56751,37640,41097,37445,92079,37168,92093,92081,36996,92080],"class_list":["post-69256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-s-death","tag-40s","tag-7am","tag-a-bedroom","tag-a-commonwealth-search-warrant-it","tag-a-critical-incident","tag-a-critical-incident-team","tag-a-home","tag-a-man","tag-a-police-raid","tag-a-report","tag-a-search-warrant","tag-a-statement","tag-a-wanted-man","tag-an-independent-standards-probe","tag-an-individual-nsw-police","tag-an-ongoing-covert-investigation","tag-an-operation","tag-assistance","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-blue-mountains-raid-home","tag-first-aid","tag-grooming-and-child-exploitation-material-officers","tag-grose-street","tag-his-blue-mountains-home","tag-his-home","tag-his-own-life","tag-investigations","tag-leura","tag-man","tag-mental-health-helplines","tag-mt-druitt-police-area-command","tag-newswire-news","tag-nsw-ambulance-paramedics","tag-nsw-police","tag-nsw-police-sex-crime-squad-officers","tag-officers","tag-online-sexual-abuse","tag-own-life","tag-part","tag-place","tag-police","tag-police-conduct","tag-sex-crime-squad-raids","tag-strike-force-trawler","tag-the-41-year-old-man","tag-the-blue-mountains","tag-the-circumstances","tag-the-death","tag-the-incident","tag-the-incident-a-cordon","tag-the-independent-investigation-team","tag-the-intention","tag-the-man","tag-the-officers","tag-the-property","tag-the-public-order-and-riot-squad","tag-the-scene","tag-the-sex-crime-squad","tag-the-state-coroner","tag-the-surrounding-area","tag-tuesday-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}