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

[ScottToorak]

Are the police using the same technology to search for Freeman as that used by Vic Police when following stolen cars by helicopter and then reporting to police on the ground the exact location of the thieves when they run from the stolen cars?
How does that technology work as it appears to work well at night and at what distance if it most effective as I presume it is using the bodyheat of the target criminal to differentiate it from the landscape. Why couldn't the Vic Police helicopters scan the hills in the hunt for Freeman using this technology or are they already? What are the limitations to this technology?.

 

[Marg944]

I'm still fixated on those pesky airfield cameras/lights @Marg944
With the north west airfield view there seems to be a light there now which may be new. There's an annoying police notice stuck in the way of it on the picture unfortunately so it's hard to see.
I wonder if its the same setup as the light seen from the south west camera angle.
It might be my eyes, but it seems there's strange little lights around both lights.
What do you think.
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I too am fixated on the airfield! I worry when I don’t see the cows in the paddocks! Those pesky lights seem to have always been there - they were present on 5 Sept. The larger light behind the TRA notice is a sign on the street, notifying of the airfield and I assume that the tiny lights are houses in the distance.

 

[Bats]

Are the police using the same technology to search for Freeman as that used by Vic Police when following stolen cars by helicopter and then reporting to police on the ground the exact location of the thieves when they run from the stolen cars?
How does that technology work as it appears to work well at night and at what distance if it most effective as I presume it is using the bodyheat of the target criminal to differentiate it from the landscape. Why couldn't the Vic Police helicopters scan the hills in the hunt for Freeman using this technology or are they already? What are the limitations to this technology?.

I think you are referring to thermal imaging. They'd be using this technology in their helicopters and on the ground. Yes, you're correct, it picks up the body heat range of the invisible light spectrum. They have limitations and probably wouldn't detect someone hiding behind a rock. They're a little different to infra-red cameras, which pick up the entire infra-red invisible light spectrum. The helicopters have all sorts of wiz bang technology on them, so the thermal imaging would be just one trick they have at play. I expect the police would have drones flying high and undetectable from the ground too. The army would also have clever reconnaissance gadgetry.

 

[Lucy.D]

Are the police using the same technology to search for Freeman as that used by Vic Police when following stolen cars by helicopter and then reporting to police on the ground the exact location of the thieves when they run from the stolen cars?
How does that technology work as it appears to work well at night and at what distance if it most effective as I presume it is using the bodyheat of the target criminal to differentiate it from the landscape. Why couldn't the Vic Police helicopters scan the hills in the hunt for Freeman using this technology or are they already? What are the limitations to this technology?.

One problem for police is that if Dezi is hiding underground (cave or mineshaft) then movement sensors or heat sensors wont work.
Evidently police can use infrared or microwave cameras but no amount of technology can replace the good old hardslog technique of personnel and dogs, which they used en masse for one day last week.
But going into the bush searching for Dezi is fraught with many dangers and to check every hiding spot is almost an impossibility.
Usually at some stage a murderer makes a mistake and that's what police could be relying on to find him..

 

[Absoluterubbish]

I too am fixated on the airfield! I worry when I don’t see the cows in the paddocks! Those pesky lights seem to have always been there - they were present on 5 Sept. The larger light behind the TRA notice is a sign on the street, notifying of the airfield and I assume that the tiny lights are houses in the distance.

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Are the little lights runway lights?

 

[Marg944]

Are the little lights runway lights?

Hmmm….. I’m not sure, but there are no others?

 

[essareem]

If we're talking about the same thing, I think they are just some reflective signs and a guide post

 

[drsleuth]

Accused cop killer Dezi Freeman probably still alive, says crime expert

Accused gunman Dezi Freeman is probably still alive as the police manhunt for him enters day 21, a criminol...

www.9news.com.au

Accused cop killer Dezi Freeman probably still alive, says crime expert​

By Richard Wood
9:15am Sep 15, 2025

Xanthe Mallet was speaking with Today this morning after Victoria Police said the search for Freeman in the state's high country had been the biggest tactical operation in Australian policing history.
"My sense ... would be that he's possibly still on the run. He may have people assisting him," she said.

 

[Lucy.D]

The airfield's 4 webcams are all on top of a roof of some sheds located on Porepunkah Airport Road.
I think police have put one another one of those mobile trailer with light/camera in the small carpark next to the sheds.
The screenshot is taken behind the sign that gets illuminated from the light that is now in the small carpark on the right and the first shed has the airfields regular cameras.

 

[Marg944]

Here’s an aerial view of the airfield - will need magnifying glass to find the cameras . Seems like a better image than Google maps.

Looks like it was last updated in April, 2024. The link allows you to enlarge the map and even find Dezi’s bus.

https://ourairports.com/big-map.html?airport=YPOK

 

[Marg944]

They’re back……

https://view.myairportcams.com/YPOK/showimagecamera1.php

 

[reepbot]

I wonder if some locals aren't being as helpful as the police want them to be because they dislike the police and the cops are misinterpreting that as them having something to hide rather than just general hatred of authority?

 

[drsleuth]

Here’s an aerial view of the airfield - will need magnifying glass to find the cameras . Seems like a better image than Google maps.

Looks like it was last updated in April, 2024. The link allows you to enlarge the map and even find Dezi’s bus.


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https://ourairports.com/big-map.html?airport=YPOK

Try Google Earth

Google Earth

earth.google.com

 

[BreakingNews]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I think they have been using sniffer dogs already? One example

And I feel like Dezi would have known to conceal his scent.

I don't think Dezi would have even thought of concealing his scent. He had just murdered 2 police officers and fled quite quickly.

 

[Bats]

I wonder if some locals aren't being as helpful as the police want them to be because they dislike the police and the cops are misinterpreting that as them having something to hide rather than just general hatred of authority?

MOO - definitely not. If the police are saying that people are 'hiding' information, it would be because they already know they are 'hiding' information. They would not be mistaking that for a general dislike of authority.

Also, my guess is the 'dislike of authority' you are referring to is probably 'uniformed officers' and not homicide detectives, forensics, administrative support, human resources, search and rescue, the k9 squad, helicopter pilots etc etc.

 

[jezzab]

Here’s an aerial view of the airfield - will need magnifying glass to find the cameras . Seems like a better image than Google maps.

Looks like it was last updated in April, 2024. The link allows you to enlarge the map and even find Dezi’s bus.


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https://ourairports.com/big-map.html?airport=YPOK

Try this, its the local Alpine shire aerial and land data. Much better resolution albeit the aerial imagery from that location is from Dec 2022

IntraMaps

maps.alpineshire.vic.gov.au

 

[Lucy.D]

Another car has now appeared and joined the other two where the light is at the airfield!
Can anyone hazard a guess at what purpose there would be in having two transportable lights on the airfield about 200m apart?

 

[essareem]

I don't think Dezi would have even thought of concealing his scent. He had just murdered 2 police officers and fled quite quickly.

If he's into the sort of ideology they say he's into, plus being in the prepper mentality, then yeah, IMO I'd say he's had an escape all mapped out 5,000 times over. To be clear, I'm not saying that I think he planned the shooting - not at all. But I do think he would have prepared for an 'event', that's what they do. IMO

 

[essareem]

I wonder if some locals aren't being as helpful as the police want them to be because they dislike the police and the cops are misinterpreting that as them having something to hide rather than just general hatred of authority?

I know exactly what you mean, some communities have higher percentage of people who won't cooperate with police where possible. I don't know if Porepunkah is like this, but the area does have a very interesting history, including recent times (COVID). IMO

 

[Marg944]

Another car has now appeared and joined the other two where the light is at the airfield!
Can anyone hazard a guess at what purpose there would be in having two transportable lights on the airfield about 200m apart?

I can only see one mobile camera unit, next to the cars @Lucy.D. Are they both in the South West view?