 Yesterday afternoon police were advised of a matter of offences that were committed by a male person between here and Yipun. A number of police were dispatched to a location in the intersection of Kuala Road and Yipun Road where they conducted a search. The information of that time was in this person was in the possession of some fire arms consisting of three long weapons and two shotguns and a quantity of ammunition. Police conducted a range of searches throughout that area over the course of the next few hours however we were unable to find that person. Later on this yesterday evening we received a call that this person had tried to make arrangements to get a lift to Yipun. Further searches were conducted and there were a number of sightings of this person. During the course incident about 8.15 last night this person approached one of our dog squad officers. They engaged in a conversation where the dog squad officer asked this person to surrender himself to police. This person failed to do so as a consequence of that and the actions of this person the dog squad officer was in fear of his life and he discharged his weapon in the direction of this person. This person immediately ran from the scene and was again sighted on two occasions after that by the police vehicles running into the bush and back onto the road on Yipun Road. The short time thereafter this person was then picked up by a passer by a member of the community and was taken to a location in Yipun and that is the last that we've actually had sightings of him. We've done everything we can and we're confident this person was not injured in any way by the shooting. The sightings by the police officer failed to see any injury and the information from the community was that this person was not injured. We'll continue today to locate that and we're carrying a range of investigations to try and facilitate that. Naturally the objective from the police point of view is to peacefully resolve this and have this person preferably surrendering himself in the police custody without us taking any further necessary action. Do you have a description and if people spot in what should they do on this metal bridge? The person's 27 years of age is about 170 centimetres tall. He's a white male, very, very short hair, sort of reasonably looks like a portion of the build. He's not a heavy set person. Now if people sight this person, we would certainly ask people not to go near him. There's nothing to suggest at this point that he's a threat to the community in general but for the purpose of safety and I'll just encourage the community to think about their own safety if you call the police on triple O or the local police station or cry of stop along 1-800-333-000 Naturally the community needs to think about their own safety but as I say he has made absolutely no threats to the community and there's no action that this person has done that leads us to believe that he is threatening the community. His issues are with the police and that'll be dealt with through the investigation process. I was just going to say is he from Kowarow or what's he doing in the area? No he's from your town and he's been a process of travelling from your town along Old Bifill Road where he's had an accident in one car, he's been located or stolen I suppose another car he's then subsequently left that car and then left that car he had these weapons that we're talking about. So how do you know where he's from and how old he is in all those details? As a result of the investigation we were having yesterday, we received information from other members of the public in terms of things that he's committed yesterday. The person, the description that was given was sufficient for us to be able to identify him through the details that he's given us and so that's how we know what we're looking for and we'll just progress up and there. When you say he's tried to arrange a lift, is that meaning he was trying to pitch high? No he's actually made contact with people that he knows and we've never seen how those people can help him. Also that those people might be charged for assisting him? That's all subject to the investigation but they're not the focus of the investigation at this point. And I understood something was thrown at the police car during the whole ordeal, what was thrown? Yeah as I said there before, he was cited on a number of occasions and on one of those occasions he's thrown a small object, I believe it was a brick or something like that but it's a small hard object this far and please be careful. How much damage done? Not quite now. Does the police believe that he's still in possession of those five firearms? What I can say is that there's five firearms in this state and we haven't covered any of those firearms. So I can't say that he has them but I can't say that he hasn't got them but I can say that we haven't recovered those firearms. What are the main areas of focus for the police search today? What we're doing is, we're not sort of going in between much of our investment practice but we're running out inquiries as to addresses and where he may be located at and what we're endeavouring to do is make contact with this person and ask this person to surrender himself to the police voluntarily and so we can resolve this matter very peacefully. And obviously if this person either hears this on the radio or is aware that we're looking for him, we would be very very encouraging and supportive of him to make contact with the police as soon as possible so that we can just get this matter over and done with. Is there a history of mental health with this person? I don't know. Any sort of prize? Sorry? Any sort of prize? I can't talk about any history there. Is he known to the police there? He's known to the police as a result of the discussions we had with the victims yesterday so the reasons that we know who he is today results directly from the information that we received yesterday. Police tried to intercept a vehicle the other day using stingers and you can write us that related to this incident? Not at all. I don't know about that. Did you say he was involved in the accident? Yeah, that's one of the offences where he's... One of the offences we're investigating is the allegation of a stolen vehicle and the information is that he's crashed that vehicle on an old biofield road and he's been on paint another vehicle and then he's obviously located that vehicle and he's been sighted in the star arms in that area in the Quarrel Road and Green Road area and that's where we've located the old investigation desk so he'll search up against that and we're able to say we're unable to find him on the old biofield road. And what's happened to that now? That vehicle's been obviously... Police retrieved that vehicle last time. There's obviously a lot of police resource thrown into this mountain police snabbing court. Yeah, we're investigating a serious matter and because it's serious, we need more years of resources than we need to try and progress this to a conclusion quickly and safely. Just finally, you said the officer feared for his life. That's why the thing was fired. How far away at this point was the offender? Was he aiming the gun at him? Why was he so fearful? I really can't comment on that. That's obviously now a subject of a separate police investigation. Anytime something like this happens for transparency's sake and to certainly ensure community confidence, it's fully investigated and it's independently investigated and there's a process that goes through there and so I just can't comment on what actually occurred last night. Are you going to release this name? Not at this stage. Do you want a bit of... Yeah, he's started to work with a new parent right now and that's just lots of people, police officers walking through the grass today. So you want to know about that? Yeah. One of the areas that we're examining is the possibility that he has secreted those firearms overnight. Some are on the Inburn Road, so as a consequence of that information, we've directed a number of resources to Inburn Road to make searches. Obviously trying to find the weapons. We've been quite fortunate. As everyone knows, we've got telescope saver operating at the moment and we've drawn extra resources from this, but some of those resources include the amount of police in it, so we've directed those amount of police officers to this area. It gives us a little bit of a height advantage in terms of them being able to look from a higher height and maybe see something that people on foot might see. Thank you. Have a nice day. Thank you. The officer that fired the weapon, is he still taking time off now? Um... It's obviously got to be pretty shaky. We've got a process there where we deal with the welfare of the staff. Obviously that's central to anything we do. So, yeah, there's a process there that's in place. In terms of whether he takes time off or not, that's a matter for him. But we've got a very strong support of work environment. How often is it that a firearm gets discharged? Quite a rare experience, I think. I can't comment on the list, but it's not a frequent occurrence. It's certainly not in my character.