Terrifying moment teenage girl is forced to the ground at gunpoint by police after her BMW was falsely reported stolen Teenage girl held at gunpoint by police over her falsely reported stolen car Kate Hartcher, 18, was detained outside her Central Coast home in October Older woman had reported the BMW as stolen - but she hadn't swapped the rego By Sam McPhee For Daily Mail Australia Published: 22:56 GMT, 30 November 2021 | Updated: 23:59 GMT, 30 November 2021 1 Viewcomments A teenage girl thought she was going to die after being held at gunpoint by police officers over a falsely reported stolen car. Kate Hartcher, 18, was heading to work on October 15 when two patrol cars swooped on her home on the NSW Central Coast and ordered her to get out of her new BMW. The disability support worker was kept on the ground by gun-wielding officers for 90 seconds before they told her the vehicle had been reported as stolen. 'I kept asking ''why is the gun pointed at me?' because that was mainly what I was scared about - I honestly thought I was going to get shot,' she tearfully told A Current Affair. Kate Hartcher, 18, feared she'd be shot after cops swooped on her when she was leaving for work one morning, forcing her to the ground at gunpoint CCTV footage of the arrest shows a male officer leap out of his police car, holding a gun and screaming at the 18-year-old to get on the ground. 'I pulled in and I went to get my dog out of the car and then as I went to exit my door to get Dixie out - I turned around and he had his gun pointed at me,' she said. 'He yelled out "Get on the f***ing ground, you have the right to remain silent".' The disability support worker says she was then treated like a criminal, handcuffed and led into the police car by several cops. She was told an older lady had reported the car as stolen. 'They put handcuffs on me and then they looked me up and then explained that the vehicle that day was reported stolen by an older lady,' Kate said. 'But when I purchased the vehicle it was off a younger Chinese male, I'd never seen an older lady at all.' The teenager says she bought the car from a man on Carsales, and had the registration papers to prove it, however she'd failed to transfer it into her name four months later. CCTV footage of the arrest shows a male officer leap out of his police car, holding a gun and screaming at the 18-year-old to get on the ground She said the man told her he was selling it on behalf of his friend who was stuck in another country. Her father Mark, a retired policeman, said the cops acted inappropriately and that he'd never seen an 'unarmed compliant person be detained for such a prolonged time'. 'While he's holding the gun on her, he keeps her covered the whole time which is really upsetting because he's constantly fidgeting with his radios and stuff like that and the chance of an unintentional discharge, they go through the roof,' he said. 'I don't even think she realises how much danger she was really in.' The patrol officer who held his gun to Kate is now under investigation, and the teenager revealed she has been pulled over since the terrifying incident as the car is still flagged as stolen. 'I still feel like someone's watching me,' she told the program. 'I deserve an apology definitely and even that wouldn't cover what I've been through.' Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility