{"id":268655,"date":"2025-10-01T08:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268655\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:01:16","slug":"specialist-search-teams-deployed-near-benalla-in-search-for-dezi-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268655\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialist search teams deployed near Benalla in search for Dezi Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are continuing the search for alleged gunman Dezi Freeman, deploying search teams to the area around Benalla in Victoria&#8217;s north-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Benalla is about 85km to the west of Porepunkah, where Mr Freeman is alleged to have shot and killed two police officers at a rural property on August 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria Police said more than 200 police officers were currently dedicated to the search for Dezi Freeman, down from about 500 in the aftermath of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The force said today&#8217;s search around Benalla forms part of a &#8220;planned operation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;There is no immediate risk to community safety and further information will be provided once operationally appropriate to do so,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;This forms part of the ongoing investigation in the Porepunkah area in the search for Desmond Freeman, we will not be providing further comment on operational activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A month after the shooting, authorities <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-09-26\/porepunkah-gunman-dezi-freeman-shooting-latest\/105806284\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have had no confirmed sightings of Mr Freeman, despite hundreds of public tip-offs and a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The reward represents the biggest reward of its kind in Victorian history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are continuing the search for alleged gunman Dezi Freeman, deploying search teams to the area around Benalla&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,101502,56183,29768,50,7207,100523,101,101503],"class_list":{"0":"post-268655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-dezi-freeman","10":"tag-fugitive","11":"tag-gunman","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-porepunkah","15":"tag-shooting","16":"tag-sovereign-citizen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115297863900619008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}