Police officer is dead after shooting incident Tasmania's north-west

A police officer was shot and killed near Ulverstone in Tasmania's north-west on Monday.

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00:00We've just heard from Commissioner Donna Adams they're not yet releasing the

00:07identity of the police officer who sadly was killed today but they did say that

00:12he was a 57 year old constable a 25 year veteran of the force and that he was

00:17attending a house at North Motton near Olverston in Tasmania's northwest to

00:22issue a warrant to repossess the house at the house sorry he was in attendance

00:26with special operations group officers as well as a senior sergeant but the

00:31special operations group officers they were hanging back at the end of the

00:35driveway and he was just attending the house with the senior sergeant and the

00:40special operations group attendance was a routine frontline response and they

00:44were saying that no one was expecting and anything like this to occur

00:48Commissioner Adams said many of the questions the media had will form part of

00:53their investigation but here's more of what she had to say I stand united with

00:58the Police Association president Mr Shane Tilley as all Tasmanian police officers

01:05stand together in shock and in grief as we try to process what's happened this

01:11morning the safety of our officers is our number one priority and to see an officer

01:18tragically killed in these circumstances is truly shocking

01:23yeah so obviously hearing from Commissioner Adams there with just the

01:30the grief the sense of loss and tragedy palpable as she referred to Shane Tilley

01:35he spoke about something like this never having happened in his career and it's

01:40hard to tell potentially when the last fatal incident involving a Tasmania police

01:45officer was so the the mood on the ground here in Tasmania today is just one of

01:50grief shock and tragic loss