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

[Ellery84]

It's interesting that no one has put their hand out for the reward yet. Maybe no one is harbouring him. Mali and the eldest son seem the obvious ones who may know something. If I was Mali, I'd be cashing in and starting a new life. Surely they all fled the caravan at the same time. I still don't understand how they weren't seen leaving. 10 police, surely the place would have been surrounded. MOO

I think - because no one has applied for the reward, it's reasonable that no one knows where Dezi is, and if none of his contacts know where he is then they're not helping him. If they're not helping him, then he's most likely deceased, which is why they have regular police and rescue workers searching - as they seem to be in recovery mode, looking for a deceased person.

 

[Lucy.D]

Hi @Bats . Going on from what you have said regarding the worthiness of allocating resources such as money and time spent - I am just curious as to what you (or any other users) would estimate the total cost of the operation to be from the time of the shootings until now, such as:

450 persons (this is an estimate)
Dog squad
Special ops
Choppers
Drones
Water police
NZ Army
Australian Army
The microwave cameras they set up (I'm sorry I don't know the word for what they're called)
Intelligence
Command centre rental fees?
Catering
Accommodation for workers
Coordination
Transport

I really appreciate any insight any of you kind folk may have.

Cheers, Ellery.

I don't think police would worry about the amount the search has cost. To me they seem to have a bottomless pit of resources and funding that can be allocated to something like this.
My guess is the search so far has cost $10 million.
The only reason why they were going to halve the number of people involved in the search IMO was because most had nothing to do. It seemed to me only a handful were searching for Dezi in the bush and personally that is where I would have put all 450 of them.
So I don't think police have handled this matter very well right from the start.

 

[Ellery84]

they seem to have a bottomless pit of resources and funding that can be allocated to something like this.

It certainly seems like it!