Superintendent Rod Drew, the officer in charge of the investigation into the fatal shooting of a policeman last Thursday morning and the serious wounding of two other officers and a civilian, said the house at 41 Chaucer Road was "a very large and complex crime scene".
He told reporters this afternoon that Molenaar's body remained inside the main bedroom of his house where a five-man police team found it late yesterday morning.
At this stage police still do not know what Molenaar's injuries are and his body would probably not be removed until sometime tomorrow.
Mr Drew said the former territorial soldier's house was "very much like a stronghold" with many military-style weapons inside and a lot of ammunition.
"There are a lot of booby-traps and improvised explosive devices."
Police had managed to reconnoitre the scene of the shootings and had planned their scene examination and placed scene protection around the site.
Mr Drew said a post-mortem examination of the dead policeman, Senior Constable Len Snee, was carried out last night and his body had been returned to his family this morning.
A full police funeral service for Mr Snee will take place at 10am on Wednesday at the Municipal Theatre in Napier. It will be followed by a private cremation.
Mr Drew said there had been little change in the condition of the three injured people with Senior Constable Bruce Miller and Leonard Holmwood, 41, the civilian who was shot while trying to get a semi-automatic rifle off Mr Molenaar, both still in a critical condition. Police drug-dog handler Senior Constable Grant Diver was in a stable condition.
Police said they would be able to give more detail about the incident tomorrow. Part of the hill area of Napier remains cordoned off as a result of the 50-hour standoff between Molenaar and the police.
Mr Holmwood has family members in Hawke's Bay who have been with him at his bedside in hospital in Hastings since he was injured.
In a statement, the family said Mr Holmwood was " an extremely private person" and they asked media to respect his privacy.
