Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart, 34, who was killed in last week’s Porepunkah shooting, has been honoured at a police funeral in Melbourne.
Around 3,000 colleagues, friends and family members of the slain police officer attended the funeral in Glen Waverley.
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Senior Constable de Waart-Hottart’s colleague Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson will be remembered at a separate police funeral on Monday.
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