John
07-12-2010, 06:58 PM
The process is expected to begin at 1pm in Newcastle, Sky News home affairs correspondent Mark White has reported.
Police are continuing to study the area close to where the gunman set up a makeshift camp while on the run.
A plastic Argos shopping bag and a clothing label discovered within 10 yards of the fugitive's extinguished campfire in Rothbury lay untouched by police until this morning.
Officers have now cordoned off the area and search teams were combing the site for other items that may have previously been missed.
On Sunday, a newspaper photographer discovered two t-shirts alleged to have belonged to Moat.
The clothing appeared to have been overlooked by officers who searched a field near to where the gunman had slept at night.
An orange t-shirt - believed to be the distinctive top Moat was wearing in CCTV footage - was lying next to a light blue t-shirt at Wagtail Farm in Rothbury.
Officers in Northumberland were also searching the River Coquet, near where Moat shot himself on Saturday.
Assistant Chief Constable Greg Vant said: "There is some intelligence that Raoul Moat may have had more than one weapon.
"It is only prudent with the safety of the public in mind to rule out such a possibility."
As investigations in and around the market town were extended, the police watchdog continued with its inquiry into the events leading to Moat's suicide.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is looking into the use of Tasers during the six-hour stand-off with Moat.
It is understood IPCC staff visited Moat's family on Sunday amid reports his three-year-old daughter does not know he is dead.
At the weekend his brother criticised the police operation, likening the 37-year-old's death to a "public execution".
Angus Moat, 39, said his brother may have killed himself in an "involuntary reaction" to being hit with a stun gun.
Moat shot himself after he was cornered by armed police in Rothbury after seven days on the run.
Tony Laidler, a friend of Moat's for more than 30 years, also criticised the use of Tasers.
"I think if police didn't try and rush him with their Tasers he would have probably passed his gun over in the end anyway," he told GMTV.
The IPCC investigation is also considering whether Northumbria Police took adequate action following a warning from Durham Prison that Moat might intend to harm his former girlfriend following his release on July 1.
Moat shot and injured his ex Sam Stobbart and killed her new lover Chris Brown on July 3 in Gateshead.
The following day he shot PC David Rathband in an unprovoked attack in Newcastle.
PC Rathband has said he "bears no malice" toward Moat and vowed to return to duty.
Meanwhile, a friend of the fugitive has told Sky News he believed that Moat was let down by the system.
The man, who did not want to be identified, said if £5,000 had been spent on Moat during his stay in prison then millions could have been saved on the police manhunt for him.
"If they got him help, (like) counselling, maybe they could have taken a step in the right direction," he said.
Police are continuing to study the area close to where the gunman set up a makeshift camp while on the run.
A plastic Argos shopping bag and a clothing label discovered within 10 yards of the fugitive's extinguished campfire in Rothbury lay untouched by police until this morning.
Officers have now cordoned off the area and search teams were combing the site for other items that may have previously been missed.
On Sunday, a newspaper photographer discovered two t-shirts alleged to have belonged to Moat.
The clothing appeared to have been overlooked by officers who searched a field near to where the gunman had slept at night.
An orange t-shirt - believed to be the distinctive top Moat was wearing in CCTV footage - was lying next to a light blue t-shirt at Wagtail Farm in Rothbury.
Officers in Northumberland were also searching the River Coquet, near where Moat shot himself on Saturday.
Assistant Chief Constable Greg Vant said: "There is some intelligence that Raoul Moat may have had more than one weapon.
"It is only prudent with the safety of the public in mind to rule out such a possibility."
As investigations in and around the market town were extended, the police watchdog continued with its inquiry into the events leading to Moat's suicide.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is looking into the use of Tasers during the six-hour stand-off with Moat.
It is understood IPCC staff visited Moat's family on Sunday amid reports his three-year-old daughter does not know he is dead.
At the weekend his brother criticised the police operation, likening the 37-year-old's death to a "public execution".
Angus Moat, 39, said his brother may have killed himself in an "involuntary reaction" to being hit with a stun gun.
Moat shot himself after he was cornered by armed police in Rothbury after seven days on the run.
Tony Laidler, a friend of Moat's for more than 30 years, also criticised the use of Tasers.
"I think if police didn't try and rush him with their Tasers he would have probably passed his gun over in the end anyway," he told GMTV.
The IPCC investigation is also considering whether Northumbria Police took adequate action following a warning from Durham Prison that Moat might intend to harm his former girlfriend following his release on July 1.
Moat shot and injured his ex Sam Stobbart and killed her new lover Chris Brown on July 3 in Gateshead.
The following day he shot PC David Rathband in an unprovoked attack in Newcastle.
PC Rathband has said he "bears no malice" toward Moat and vowed to return to duty.
Meanwhile, a friend of the fugitive has told Sky News he believed that Moat was let down by the system.
The man, who did not want to be identified, said if £5,000 had been spent on Moat during his stay in prison then millions could have been saved on the police manhunt for him.
"If they got him help, (like) counselling, maybe they could have taken a step in the right direction," he said.