Porepunkah shooting: Two officers dead and another wounded after shooting at High Country property, Victoria, Australia #2

[Absoluterubbish]

Police scour cave in search for Dezi Freeman

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I’m starting to think maybe if the media stopped continuously reporting where they are searching they might have a much better chance of catching him

 

[essareem]

I’m starting to think maybe if the media stopped continuously reporting where they are searching they might have a much better chance of catching him

True, I've had a lot of thoughts like this, although that one cave video is a VicPol video.

 

[drsleuth]

I'm just wondering where all those 450 officers are. That's a huge number of people looking for nearly 3 weeks.
In fact I highly doubt there is that many to be honest and I think they have already scaled back.
Obviously they aren't all at Porepunkah, but where are they all sleeping, there must be a big catering business etc
If the costs so far have run into millions of dollars then perhaps the reward should be increased.
The reward was said to be 'up to $1 million', whatever that means and that's just for Dezi's arrest.
I personally don't think $1m is a life changing amount, as was stated by police.
There's probably people who won't be happy someone dobbing in Dezi, so the person who collects the reward money will have to be watching over their shoulder.
So perhaps increase the reward to reflect that risk.
TBH if there's 450 officers looking for Dezi, I'd like to see them saturate the Mt Buffalo area and rule all that bushland out as dezi's hiding place as I believe that's the most obvious place where he would go. MOO

It is a huge very rugged , dangerous area/s they are searching, which requires specialist / highly trained officers, all while being very mindful that there could be an armed offender wanting to kill them.

Mount Buffalo - Wikipedia

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The Mount Buffalo National Park is a national park in the alpine region of Victoria, Australia. The 31,000-hectare (77,000-acre) national park is located approximately 350 kilometres (220 mi) northeast of Melbourne in the Australian Alps. Within the national park is Mount Buffalo, a moderately high mountain plateau, with an elevation of 1,723 metres (5,653 ft) above sea level.

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[Bats]

The enormity of this search for Filby is huge. My guess is that on the first day (24 hours) on the run, its easily possible for him to have covered 40km on foot. If you take that as a radius, that's an area of over 5,000 square kilometres that he could be in, in 24 hours....in dense bush. Though the temperature in the first few days got down to near zero (Celsius), so very difficult for survival if you're out in the elements.
He either had some place to go (bunker or friend), or he made a dash to get as far away from the area as quickly as possible. My guess is he had enough time to grab a backpack with some things as he surely wouldn't be carrying around 2 handguns and other bits and pieces, without a bag. If he did go to a friend, then he still has to get away from that friend's house, so that could only have happened almost straight away.

JMO

 

[drsleuth]

From the presser with Officer Russell Barrett

• On Friday 12/9 Victoria Police conducted the largest ever tactical policing in Australia's history
• The Special Operations group , together with all equivalents from all states & territories & New Zealand, infact over 125 specialist tactical members , scoured / searched an area in the immediate vicinity of Freeman's location, this included incredibly rugged area, they were crawling thru caves, they were traversing rivers & falls, they were searching plantations & gorges.
• Overall have searched 100's of properties , with & without warrant, searched abandoned structures, searched mine shafts, caves, huts .
• Resolve to find Freeman does not change
• Slight lift in travel warnings for the Porepunkah area, people can travel there
• Park remains closed

From some questions :

• Search requirements come from intelligence & is reviewed every day
• All New Zealand police have gone home
• Can't go into if any items of interest were found in Friday's search

Reporter : "In terms of the assistance you h=got from New Zealand Officers , was that just for tactical or was it ......."

Police Assistant Commissioner Russell Barrett : " It's unprecedented, you'll obviously see the images, if you haven't seen them already. The terrain is incredibly difficult. The danger in terms of what we are confronted with is incredibly difficult as well. We need our specialist , our most capable tactical operatives to undertake this search. We are looking for a person who is armed, dangerous, and has a history, a recent history of murdering two police officers. So this is not something we can do a line search, like we are looking for a missing person, which we often do, with SES, police etc. This is a really highly technical search that requires absolute specialist capabilities to undertake because of the dangers that are involved. To do that in a single effort , to enable us to clear a particularly large piece of rugged terrain required an extremely number of tactical operatives.

Reporter : Was it worth it? Did you find anything?

Police Assistant Commissioner Russell Barrett : It's absolutely worth it . It gives us confidence & clarity on a particular important search area. And gives us the ability to do it in a single like time, which than enables us to think about , what we can than say to the community & give us confidence about what our next steps will be.

Reporter : Has his family been forthcoming with assistance to police?

Police Assistant Commissioner Russell Barrett : I thin we have addressed that, we've spoken to his family, and we will continue to endeavor to get them to support us, but at this stage, um that's a matter for the Homicide squad to continue to work with them.

Reporter : Have they provided a statement at this stage?

Police Assistant Commissioner Russell Barrett : Well they've been interviewed.

Reporter : But not a statement?

Police Assistant Commissioner Russell Barrett : They've been interviewed.

 

[drsleuth]

My guess is they are happy they have cleared the immediate area on Friday ( in one foul swoop ) & have put CCTV / Heat seeking sources / lights in strategic places around Porepunkha so that they are alerted if he returns??? Probably have lots of cameras planted in the bush as well as unoccupied dwellings etc

 

[drsleuth]

Police scour cave in search for Dezi Freeman

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A few screen shots from you video

What tough work , but PD looks happy enough, big adventure for them I guess.

 

[drsleuth]

Search for Dezi Freeman continues as police lift Porepunkah travel warning

The huge search for accused gunman Dezi Freeman continues as police today announced the lifting of travel ...

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The huge search for accused gunman Dezi Freeman continues as police today announced the lifting of travel restrictions for the Victorian town of Porepunkah.

A total of 125 specialist tactical police, comprising officers from Australian state and territory forces and New Zealand police, carried out the latest operation – the largest of its kind in Australian history, according to police – around the Porepunkah area last Friday.

 

[drsleuth]

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[Kemug]

How difficult/easy would it be/have been for Dezi to get to Tasmania?

 

[drsleuth]

How difficult/easy would it be/have been for Dezi to get to Tasmania?

I don't know, if he had help, not impossible I guess

 

[drsleuth]

I noticed the Police & journos have stopped calling him Dezi, now just calling him Freeman.

 

[essareem]

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My guess is releasing these photos is a tactical move.

Kind of puts into perspective the cost / man hours of this search. It must be astronomical.

At least it would be great real scenario experience for the specialised members.

 

[essareem]

Reporter : Have they provided a statement at this stage?

Police Assistant Commissioner Russell Barrett : Well they've been interviewed.

Reporter : But not a statement?

Police Assistant Commissioner Russell Barrett : They've been interviewed.

SBM. Can anyone translate what this means?

 

[drsleuth]

SBM. Can anyone translate what this means?

In short , they have not been helpful & the homicide squad are dealing with then now IMO

 

[drsleuth]

Huge update in manhunt for suspected cop killer Dezi Freeman

Victoria Police has updated its travel warning to Porepunkah as it has revealed the 'unprecedented' search effort in the manhunt for accused cop killer Dezi Freeman.

www.dailymail.co.uk

'Our investigation is not restricted to the area, whilst we're focused on a ground search in that area, our investigation is much broader than what we're seeing on the ground, and we're we're following up all leads, all intelligence, all information that's provided to us.

'Freeman will always be pursued until he's located, if he's, if he's able to see this, or someone who has ability to contact him or maybe harbouring him to think about surrendering.

'We will leave no stone unturned to try and establish how we can best conduct this investigation.

 

[essareem]

I just had a macabre thought... IMO If Dezi hated the police so much, and knew his life was pretty much over at this point... What, in my opinion would be the biggest final "finger" to the police (other than going out in a final shootout - which I feel like if he wanted that he would have done it already) is if he took his own life in some ridiculously inaccessible spot. I'm sure the thought of an enormous amount of time and money wasted to never find him would have filled him with happiness.

Maybe he has mental issues but the guy was smart imo.

 

[drsleuth]

Dezi Freeman search now Australia's largest tactical police deployment

New Zealand police briefly joined the search for alleged police killer Dezi Freeman as travel advice for Victoria's north-east eases.

www.abc.net.au

Hundreds of officers from Victoria, interstate, the Australian Federal Police and the army continue to search dense, rugged bushland in Victoria's north-east for the fugitive, who has now been on the run for 20 days.

Police revealed the New Zealand contingent took part in an intensive search on Friday in the immediate vicinity of Mr Freeman's Porepunkah property.

Acting Deputy Commissioner of Regional Operations, Russell Barrett, said the operation included more than 125 specialist officers.

 

[Marg944]

Huge update in manhunt for suspected cop killer Dezi Freeman

Victoria Police has updated its travel warning to Porepunkah as it has revealed the 'unprecedented' search effort in the manhunt for accused cop killer Dezi Freeman.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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SBM. Can anyone translate what this means?

There's a difference between talking to police and co-operating with police. I believe the police think the family members are withholding information that could help in the search.
If that's the case, then police could lay charges of being an accessory or obstructing justice in relation to that.