The state coroner`s court will investigate the deaths of four people in Friday`s deliberate killings in CBD, Melbourne, and investigate the appropriateness of the police`s handling and the decision to stop tracking suspects when they have not yet arrived in town.
After Friday`s incident, some police said the controversial no-chase policy left the police tied up.
Four people were killed and 30 were still being treated for injuries when the driver crashed into Bourke Street on Friday afternoon.
A senior police officer told ABC that the families of those killed and injured had the right to question why the police had failed to stop the suspect sooner.
"the policy of no chasing is a disgrace, a cowardly act," he said.
"within two hours before he entered town, there was plenty of opportunity to stop him, but the police were ordered to stop chasing."
The 26-year-old suspect, Dimitrious Gargasoulas, took his girlfriend hostage in the early hours of Friday morning by stabbing his brother in Windsor before entering town hours later.
At 11:45 on Friday, police with guns and batons tried to stop the car on Bolte Bridge, but police were ordered to give up tracking because he was driving dangerously.
At 01:30, he was photographed burning a tire outside Flinders Street Station.
With 13 people killed by police suspects in five years, the state police have been subject to new car-chasing restrictions since 2015. The move sparked outrage from the police association and its members, and some changes were made to the restrictions. In spite of this, the restraining order is still not popular with the police.
"if my family were affected, I would be very angry." Said the senior police officer.
"the state police knew that the restraining order was going to happen sooner or later."
As an organization, we let the Victorians down.
Earlier Saturday, the state police chief defended the order to stop tracking, saying he "strongly supported" the police`s decision at the time.
"from my point of view-I stress that this is my point of view-all the decisions made by the police are to make the community safer. I believe that. " Graham Ashton said.
Another officer told the ABC that under current policy, if the suspect`s identity was known, as in the case, the boss would order the tracking to stop and find them later.
"We`ve called for dozens of tracking, nothing to do with it. But we don`t have a crystal ball to predict the future, so we`ll never know what the consequences are.", he told ABC.
"this is the first time this has happened, but it will not be the last."
