Victoria police have announced a million-dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of fugitive Dezi Freeman but given strict warnings to the public not to go searching, after the alleged murder of two police officers in Porepunkah last month.

The reward of “up to $1m” is the largest ever offered in Victoria for an arrest, said Det Insp Dean Thomas from the homicide squad. Thomas told media on Saturday morning that a number of “heavily armed” specialist police continued to search bushland in the Porepunkah area.

Freeman allegedly shot and killed the two officers when they were executing a search warrant at his residence on Rayner Track in Porepunkah in Victoria’s north-east on 26 August. A third officer was seriously injured and is now recovering at home.

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