A man has been cleared of links to the hunt for fugitive Dezi Freeman as authorities ramp up the search of a popular national park for the accused police killer.

Freeman has been on the run for more than five weeks since Neal Thompson and Vadim de Waart-Hottart were shot dead while serving a warrant at his home in Porepunkah, 300km northeast of Melbourne.

Detective Senior Constable Thompson, 59, was just a week away from retiring while Senior Constable de Waart-Hottart, 34, was on temporary assignment to the area.

There has been no sign of Freeman since the shooting on August 26, despite hundreds of police scouring the area.

This week an additional 100 officers from the Public Order Response Team were deployed to Mount Buffalo National Park to conduct further sweeps of the area, with t

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