I'm not Tootsie - but, here you go...
Here is part of it - remember whilst Melbourne was in lockdown due to Covid19 - most people were at home and the warrant was running out - they decided to go "in" whilst all family members were present/asleep (including the gamer-son)
IMO - Amazing work, by 3 fit men (phoar) - and no doubt with night-goggles on !! (think TRG - tactical response/SOG's)
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'Inside the high-stakes police surveillance operation that brought down Greg Lynn
Normally, after being granted warrants to covertly install surveillance equipment, they would spend a few days monitoring the patterns of the household and identify an hour or two when they could be reasonably certain no one was in the house.
A specialised team would quickly enter and install tiny devices through ceiling cavities and wall cavities. The tips of these devices, each no bigger than a pin, were almost invisible to the naked eye and would sit flush with the wall or the ceiling, having just penetrated the surface.
The devices were connected to a scan detector. Finally, everything had to be hardwired into the powerboard of the house. It was delicate, highly technical work that required time to execute properly. Time alone in the house. But how could they install all this equipment at Lynn’s place when no one was leaving the house, and his son was staying up all night playing video games?
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The only option, the last resort, was a “hot install” – covertly installing the surveillance equipment in the house in the dead of night while people were in it
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At around 1am a dark HiAce glided into Caroline Springs and pulled up opposite the target house. Three fit men slipped out the rear door and walked quietly across the road. Two held small carry-bags, while the third gripped a Bogota rake (a type of lock pick) and a tension wrench, instruments that the team used to neutralise the deadlock on the front door swiftly and silently.
Once inside they worked quickly, precisely and in complete silence in the rooms and the roof cavity while the house’s occupants slept. All except Lynn’s son, who was still on his PlayStation. The real danger was disturbing the boy.
At 3.37am a signal from the living room appeared on the screens of the Comms monitoring room at Missing Persons HQ. Then another from the dining room. Then one from the kitchen … and finally, an excruciating seven-and-a-half minutes later, from the main bedroom. It was all done and the team was out before 4am.
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Edit: This is an edited extract from In the Dead of Night: A Mysterious Disappearance, a Brazen Murderer and the Police Who Hunted Him Down by Greg Haddrick (Allen & Unwin), out on October 29.'
www.theage.com.au
