The police corruption watchdog has recommended that charges be laid against a number of police involved in the fatal arrest of a Brazilian student in Sydney last year.

Roberto Laudisio Curti died after police fired Tasers at him in Sydney's CBD in March last year.

The Police Integrity Commission says it has handed a brief of evidence to the Director of Public Prosecutions recommending a number of the officers involved should be prosecuted.

Late last year the NSW coroner found police acted "like schoolboys in Lord of the Flies" as they tasered Mr Curti.

The 21-year-old had stolen a packet of biscuits from a convenience store and was delusional and behaving erratically after using a small amount of LSD.

He died after police fired Tasers at him 14 times - seven of them within 51 seconds - following a chase.

Coroner Mary Jerram said the actions of police were reckless and excessive, and constituted an abuse of police power.

She strongly recommended that disciplinary action be taken against five officers involved in the fatal confrontation.

In February this year the NSW Ombudsman Bruce Barbour released a report that was critical of the police investigation into the death.

"The police investigation into the death of Mr Laudisio Curti failed to adequately identify and deal with the question of whether there was any police misconduct," the report said.