Police Intergity Commission wants Sergeant Sheree Bissett charged over Adam Salter shooting Adam Salter was shot once in the shoulder by a female sergeant. THE police sergeant who shot dead an armed mentally ill man in his kitchen should be prosecuted for giving false and misleading evidence to the Police Integrity Commission, the commission has recommended today. Police commissioner Andrew Scipione should also consider sacking Sergeant Sherree Bissett or take action against her for professional misconduct, the PIC said. Experienced Sergeant Bissett told the PIC she believed a fellow officer, Aaron Abela, had been in grave danger from Adam Salter, who was suicidal and armed with a large carving knife that he had already stabbed himself with. Sergeant Bissett and three fellow officers all said that Probationary Constable Abela had been attempting to restrain Mr Salter when she shot him. But PIC commissioner Bruce James rejected almost all of the police evidence in favour of the paramedics who said Constable Abela was at the other side of the kitchen at the time. Mr James also rejected independent ambulance briefing notes that said a police officer had attempted to restrain Mr Salter - supporting the police version of events. The briefing notes were prepared by an independent senior ambulance officer after she spoke to the paramedics. They said: "The only police officer in kitchen at the time being possibly junior attempted to restrain the patient." The commissioner also rejected an Ambulance Service file note that backed the evidence given by police. The file note said: "[patient] stabbed self in chest initially then started to stab himself in the throat. Police on scene trying to restrain [patient]. Mr James said he accepted that Sergeant Bissett was in a difficult situation on November 18, 2009, when she went back into the kitchen of the house Mr Salter shared with his father Adrian in Lakemba. She had been alerted by one of the paramedics who was shouting for help. She knew that only one police officer had been left inside the kitchen and that that police officer was inexperienced. She also knew that Adam Salter had previously stabbed himself with the knife and that the knife was in the sink in the kitchen," the commissioner said. But he found that Sergeant Bissett, Constable Abela, Leading Senior Constable Leah Wilson and Senior Constable Emily Metcalf had all lied to the commission about Constable Abela being close to Mr Salter and therefore in danger. Mr James recommended that consideration should be given to Constable Abela, Constable Wilson and Constable Metcalf all being prosecuted for perjury and giving false and misleading evidence as well as being considered for either the sack or disciplinary action. One of the state's top and most respected homicide detectives, Inspector Russell Oxford, had headed the police's critical investigation into the shooting and found it was justified. Mr James found that Inspector Oxford engaged in police misconduct because he believed the evidence of the police officers and "did not properly take into consideration the accounts of the civilian witnesses (the paramedics) " among other criticisms. The commissioner also found action should be considered against two other officers involved with the investigation - Sergeant Stephen Tedder and Inspector Matthew Hanlon, who was the acting Local Area Commander and duty officer at Campsie police station. All of the police officers had denied lying to the PIC.