Bondi stabbings: New footage showing hero cop Amy Scott drawing her gun to stop killer Joel Cauchi released

New CCTV footage shows the moment hero police officer Amy Scott drew her gun on killer Joel Cauchi amid a stabbing frenzy at Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre.

Inspector Scott was at the centre when Cauchi’s killing spree began on April 13, 2024.

He claimed the lives of six people — Dawn Singleton, Yixuan Cheng, Faraz Ahmed Tahir, Ashlee Good, Jade Young and Pikria Darchia — with another 10 injured during the attack.

Inspector Scott shot Cauchi dead during the incident and is credited with saving multiple lives as a result.

The footage, released on Thursday as part of a five-week inquest into the massacre, shows the police officer chasing the killer inside the shopping centre before drawing her weapon and pointing it at him.

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It’s the first time footage of Inspector Scott responding to the emergency has been released.

In the CCTV footage an employee at one of the shops can be seen standing near the door to the shop as Cauchi ran from Inspector Scott.

In a heart-stopping moment, Cauchi appeared to very briefly hesitate in front of the employee before continuing to run.

Inspector Scott then comes into view, with French construction workers Silas Despreaux and Damien Guerot — dubbed the “bollard men” behind her armed with a chair and trolley.

The employee can then be seen retreating back into the store and locking the doors.

Inspector Scott appears to be telling people to stand behind her before she retreats and pulls out her gun, with Cauchi coming into view running at her.

During the terrifying attack, some shoppers reached for their smartphones and hit “record” — something a high-ranking anti-terrorism police officer hopes to never see again.

Chief Inspector Colin Green on Thursday said the public did not know how to react to an armed offender in a crowded space.

The slogan “Escape, Hide, Tell” — recommending getting away from the threat or finding a place to hide before calling the police — should be as ingrained as fire safety mottos, he said.

“This should be a message that is as common to our younger generation as ‘Get down low and go, go, go’,” he told the NSW Coroners Court.

Chief Insp Green, a NSW Police Terrorism Protection Unit member, warned against filming unfolding terror events on phones as many people did during the April 13 attacks.

Chaos felt by shoppers also flowed through to emergency services, with the inquest told the man in charge of the state’s specially trained paramedics was only alerted “by accident”.

The duty officer that day, who cannot be legally named, was in charge of the NSW Ambulance Special Operations Teams containing paramedics experienced in giving medical aid in high-risk situations.

While NSW Ambulance was told within two minutes of the attack that started at 3.32pm, the specialist paramedics manager only found out when he called the control centre about an unrelated matter about 3.46pm.

“I became aware of the incident kind of by accident,” he told the inquest.

He was told that the centre did not have time to deal with his matter as “someone (had) just gone nuts with a gun at Bondi”.

While special operations paramedics had been deployed to the shopping centre at the time, it could have been done more efficiently, he told the court.

Under questioning, he agreed he had been left “troubled” by not being contacted about the serious incident.

Someone could have been sent to pick up ballistic helmets and vests from a central repository and get them to the team on the ground faster, the officer told the court.

Instead, paramedics at the mall had to wait 16 minutes to get clearance from NSW Police to use the personal protective equipment located there, he said.

— With Newswire and AAP