Overview

• Officers are conducting a planned operation in the Goomalibee farming area near Benalla as part of the Porepunkah investigation.
• Police said further details will be released when operationally appropriate.
• A local farmer reported seeing about 20 unmarked police vehicles and a helicopter overhead for roughly an hour.
• Freeman is accused of fatally shooting Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart, 35, and Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson, 59, on August 26 during the service of an historical sex-abuse warrant, with another detective seriously wounded.
• Freeman fled into nearby bushland after the shooting and has not been seen since, and police confirmed earlier this week that the broader search effort had been scaled back.