Overview

• Specialist teams are conducting systematic searches of properties, mines, caves and dugouts in rugged country around Porepunkah.
• Forecasters expect showers with hail, thunderstorms and possible snowfall to about 600 metres, which will slow ground operations and reduce visibility.
• Victoria Police say all available assets are in the field and have asked Dezi Freeman to call triple zero to arrange a surrender plan.
• No confirmed sightings have been reported as investigators continue speaking with Freeman’s wife and warn that helping him constitutes a criminal offence.
• Detective Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim De Waart were killed during a warrant linked to alleged child sex offending, a wounded officer is expected to recover, and the Alpine Shire waste tip remains closed.