{"id":22035,"date":"2025-09-14T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/22035\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:57:12","slug":"new-zealand-police-join-victoria-manhunt-for-alleged-cop-killer-desmond-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/22035\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand police join Victoria manhunt for alleged cop killer Desmond Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">Hundreds of specialist police have fanned out across the dense terrain since the shooting to try to capture Freeman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">Victoria Deputy Commissioner Russell Barrett said the search was the largest tactical policing operation in Australia\u2019s history. As well as New Zealand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/victoria-police-lift-travel-warning-for-porepunkah-as-search-for-dezi-freeman-continues\/NBJVS3DAEZHNRAJWU2RT4ST2CE\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/victoria-police-lift-travel-warning-for-porepunkah-as-search-for-dezi-freeman-continues\/NBJVS3DAEZHNRAJWU2RT4ST2CE\/\">the manhunt<\/a> has involved officers from every Australian state.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Specialist officers have entered caves in the hunt for Freeman. Photo \/ Victoria Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Specialist officers have entered caves in the hunt for Freeman. Photo \/ Victoria Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOver 125 specialist detectives scoured and searched an area in the immediate vicinity of Freeman\u2019s location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis included extremely rugged areas, by crawling through caves, by traversing rivers and walls, by searching plantations and gorges,\u201d said Barrett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">Australian police have also offered an A$1 million ($1.11m) reward for information that leads to the capture of Freeman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of specialist police have fanned out across the dense terrain since the shooting to try to capture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1554,1135,1558,22970,22973,8224,22971,6097,22972,2082,7808,305,5838,19755,14235,22475,117,111,43,139,69,675,1516,165,22974,2821,80],"class_list":["post-22035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-alleged","tag-australian","tag-been","tag-cop","tag-counterparts","tag-deployed","tag-desmond","tag-down","tag-eleven","tag-for","tag-freeman","tag-have","tag-help","tag-join","tag-killer","tag-manhunt","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-staff","tag-their","tag-track","tag-victoria","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}