Overview

• More than 3,000 mourners, including the prime minister and Victoria’s premier, attended the full‑honours service at the Victoria Police Academy.
• A guard of honour and Police Air Wing flyover marked the farewell, and both fallen officers received posthumous honours including the Victoria Police Star.
• Freeman, 56, is accused of killing Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim de Waart‑Hottart and wounding a third officer during an August 26 warrant at Porepunkah before fleeing into bushland.
• Hundreds of officers continue to search Victoria’s High Country, with more than 100 properties checked and appeals to contact Crime Stoppers rather than engage the suspect.
• Investigators say there is no evidence of a specific person assisting Freeman, while his eldest son described his survival skills and sent condolences to the officers’ families.