Victoria Police to contact Collingwood player Harry O'Brien over Brazil murder How Harry O'Brien and Collingwood must wish this was as simple as a bust-up with the coach. VICTORIA'S chief commissioner Ken Lay says the force will make contact with Collingwood Football Club about an alleged murder Harry OBrien witnessed. Mr Lay said he felt for O'Brien, who is struggling to come to terms with the experience of hearing gunshots before watching a man die as he tried to flee the scene in Rio de Janeiro on Christmas Day in 2011. He confirmed, however, Brazil's police force has not been in contact. "The Harry O'Brien situation, I really feel for, I really feel for - Harry's obviously going through some really difficult circumstances so I don't want to make any comment at all about the circumstances,"" he told 3AW's Neil Mitchell today. He'll work his way through it but clearly there's some conversations around something he may well have witnessed in Rio de Janeiro. We'll probably have a talk to the football club and see if there's anything that we can help with or understand that better. Asked if Brazilian investigators had contacted Victoria Police he said: "No, not at all." The force made an official statement this morning about how it would go about dealing with sensitive issues troubling the Collingwood star. Victoria Police will make contact with Harry O'Brien and offer any assistance and advice we can. Meanwhile, O'Brien has been made aware he must "buy in" to the Collingwood culture if he is to have a long-term future at the club. Collingwood star Harry O'Brien says he's battling suicidal and depressing thoughts. The Brazilian-born defender has previously detailed his stepfather's suicide, and the murder in Brazil. He's been through things I couldn't imagine O'Brien hid out with radio personality Scott Dooley in Sydney - not Port Douglas as was believed - at the weekend, having told the club he did not want his personal situation used as the reason for his absence against Carlton. The AFL players' union also said it was aware of O'Brien's personal issues before he revealed them publicly. AFLPA chief executive Matt Finnis said his organisation had been helping O'Brien before the events of recent days. O'Brien's Magpies teammate Luke Ball is president of the AFLPA. "They weren't a shock because I've been aware that Harry's had some personal issues he's been dealing with for some time now," Finnis said today. Our association's been supporting him with that ... players are not immune from any of the vulnerabilities and fallibilities that you or I might suffer in society. What's best for Harry will be worked out between Harry and the experts around him and the footy club. One thing I am very confident of is that in a person like Nathan Buckley as coach, with peers like Luke Ball and (Magpies captain) Nick Maxwell, I'm sure Harry will get the support around him to make sure he's best placed to both deal with the issues off the field and get back to playing the great footy he has been. With Anthony Dowsley and AAP