Super secret detail about Dezi Freeman search that authorities don’t want the public to know – and the grim reality that he may never be found: Live updates

A former Australian Federal Police boss has shared insight into the widespread manhunt for alleged cop killer Dezi Freeman and why police have been tight-lipped about specific operational details.

The Australian Defence Force has been called in to join the marathon manhunt as efforts to track down the fugitive ramp up.

Former Australian Federal Police detective superintendent David Craig has detailed how military involvement will assist tracking Freeman down.

‘The military have access to technologies that aren’t available to the civilian population and aren’t made public,’ he told Sunrise on Thursday.

‘I don’t feel comfortable in listing some of those, but it is another level.

‘The operation will still be led by the Victorian Police, who are doing a very good job with this.

‘They just need some additional technical support, and in other cases similar to this, where the military have not been involved, they’ve gone on unresolved in these manhunts.’

Mr Craig also conceded there’s a possibility that Freeman may never be found.

‘This person is part of a very hard ideological group,’ he said.

‘I don’t think any close associates are going to roll over and decide to talk to the authorities for a couple of thousand dollars.’

A woman who heard two Victoria Police officers gunned down in an ‘ambush’, that sparked a manhunt for Dezi Freeman, has revealed police are yet to speak with her.

The neighbour – who wished to remain anonymous because of her friendship with Freeman’s wife Amalia – told Daily Mail that police closed off her street at Porepunkah in Victoria’s High Country several times to question Freeman’s associates.

However, she said that not once have police reached out to her, despite her relationship with the family and the fact that she was an ear-witness to the fatal shooting.

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