Victoria Police ran Australia’s “largest ever tactical police operation” in the search for suspected cop killer Dezi Freeman on Friday, which involved more than 125 heavily armed officers searching through caves and ravines in the state’s rugged north-east.

The operation comes as authorities announced an end to a travel warning for the area around Porepunkah, nearly three weeks after Dezi Freeman fled into the bush. He allegedly shot and killed Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson , 59, and Senior Constable Vadim De Waart-Hottart , 35, during an operation to serve a warrant on the 56-year-old.

“Today, we say to the community of Victoria, we’re making a slight lift in the warnings – the travel warnings for the Porepunkah area. A change is to allow the community to return

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