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Mirror: Algarve police 'not helping'
bb1 Thu Nov 28, 2013 10:14 am
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-portuguese-police-algarve-2859874
By Tom Pettifor
Madeleine McCann: Portuguese police in Algarve 'no help to hunt'
28 Nov 2013 01:20
A friend of Kate and Gerry McCann said: “The Policia Judiciara are not pulling their weight and are almost working against the Met"
Portuguese police hunting for Madeleine McCann’s kidnapper are not “pulling their weight,” a source close her parents said yesterday.
Fears that tension between the country’s Policia Judiciara and Scotland Yard is mounting comes as Britain’s top cop called on the two forces to unite in a joint investigation.
The Met Police’s Bernard Hogan-Howe’s plea is “a polite but public expression of frustration", Kate and Gerry McCann’s close pal believes.
The source added: “They can’t see this ever happening else it would have happened six and a half years ago!
“It seems the PJ are not pulling their weight and are almost working against the Met!
“If Mr Hogan-Howe is at pains to stress that both investigations should run jointly, and not in parallel, it shows his frustration that the present system to find Madeleine and whoever took her is not working.”
The source added: “There are two separate agendas here. The Met recently showed on Crimewatch images of a white suspect they are looking for.
“Just two or three days later the PJ say they are hunting for a black tractor driver! It is completely contradictory to what the Met are saying!
“It seems obvious to us that the PJ are back to their old game, which is not helping the search for Madeleine.”
Heart specialist Gerry and former GP wife Kate, both 45, of Rothley, Leics, declined to comment while the police inquiry is ingoing.
Their spokesperson Clarence Mitchell said: “How the investigations are run is entirely a matter for both police forces to agree themselves.”
Maddie was aged nearly four when she vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in May 2007.
Not good news; we all hoped the malign influence of Gonzo and his cronies was a thing of the past as far as the Algarve PJ was concerned.
It was noticed, however, that as soon as they became involved, the leaks from sources in the PJ started all over again, with said Sources rushing to tell CdM about what they were doing.
By Tom Pettifor
Madeleine McCann: Portuguese police in Algarve 'no help to hunt'
28 Nov 2013 01:20
A friend of Kate and Gerry McCann said: “The Policia Judiciara are not pulling their weight and are almost working against the Met"
Portuguese police hunting for Madeleine McCann’s kidnapper are not “pulling their weight,” a source close her parents said yesterday.
Fears that tension between the country’s Policia Judiciara and Scotland Yard is mounting comes as Britain’s top cop called on the two forces to unite in a joint investigation.
The Met Police’s Bernard Hogan-Howe’s plea is “a polite but public expression of frustration", Kate and Gerry McCann’s close pal believes.
The source added: “They can’t see this ever happening else it would have happened six and a half years ago!
“It seems the PJ are not pulling their weight and are almost working against the Met!
“If Mr Hogan-Howe is at pains to stress that both investigations should run jointly, and not in parallel, it shows his frustration that the present system to find Madeleine and whoever took her is not working.”
The source added: “There are two separate agendas here. The Met recently showed on Crimewatch images of a white suspect they are looking for.
“Just two or three days later the PJ say they are hunting for a black tractor driver! It is completely contradictory to what the Met are saying!
“It seems obvious to us that the PJ are back to their old game, which is not helping the search for Madeleine.”
Heart specialist Gerry and former GP wife Kate, both 45, of Rothley, Leics, declined to comment while the police inquiry is ingoing.
Their spokesperson Clarence Mitchell said: “How the investigations are run is entirely a matter for both police forces to agree themselves.”
Maddie was aged nearly four when she vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in May 2007.
Not good news; we all hoped the malign influence of Gonzo and his cronies was a thing of the past as far as the Algarve PJ was concerned.
It was noticed, however, that as soon as they became involved, the leaks from sources in the PJ started all over again, with said Sources rushing to tell CdM about what they were doing.
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Re: Mirror: Algarve police 'not helping'
bb1 Thu Nov 28, 2013 10:28 am
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/445546/British-and-Portugese-police-to-merge-in-hunt-for-Madeleine-McCann
British and Portugese police to merge in hunt for Madeleine McCann
BRITISH and Portuguese detectives investigating the kidnap of Madeleine McCann are close to becoming a single task force, it was revealed yesterday.
By: John TwomeyPublished: Thu, November 28, 2013
High-level talks are taking place aimed at setting up a joint investigation team. The new squad would take advantage of European law to speed up cross-border inquiries in the bid to discover the truth about the disappearance of the three-year-old in Praia da Luz in 2007.
Negotiations to form the joint unit were revealed by Metropolitan Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.
He said: “One thing we’d like to see in the future is a joint investigation team which comes under the European community. It is a possibility legally, and we’re working together at political, police and judicial levels to see how we can construct that.”
An elite Yard squad is carrying out an investigation, code-named Operation Grange.
It is following several lines of inquiry, including reports of a man seen carrying a child wearing pyjamas close to the McCann family apartment around the time Madeleine went missing.
Portugal has its own review team looking at the disappearance from a different angle.
One line of inquiry Portuguese police are probing is whether Euclides Monteiro, who died four years ago, snatched Madeleine in an act of revenge against the holiday resort where she was staying, and from where he had been sacked the year before.
Mobile phone transmitter analysis placed his handset near the holiday apartment. The suspect, who was a heroin addict and thief from Cape Verde, off the west African coast, died in a tractor accident aged 40. His family insist he is innocent.
Sir Bernard said: “There are two separate inquiries with a different focus. But it’s important that we work together on what is clearly a common problem. It’s a formal arrangement. It allows officers from each country to work in the other country, it gives them powers associated with that and it’s an efficient way of doing it.
“If you’re not careful, you end up doing things on an ad-hoc basis, and for us it would be better to have that type of arrangement. So we’re trying to get agreement between the two governments and the two police services.”
British police received hundreds of calls and emails after recent renewed television appeals for information in the UK, Holland and Germany. They appealed for help trying to trace a man who was seen carrying a child towards the sea, and a number of fair-haired men who were hanging around the holiday apartment where Madeleine was staying.
The girl’s parents, heart specialist Gerry McCann and former GP Kate, both 45, of Rothley, Leics, declined to comment while the police inquiry is ongoing.
Their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “How the investigations are run is entirely a matter for both police forces to agree themselves.”
But a family source expressed concern about the Portuguese investigation and urged the Lisbon authorities to ensure their inquiries are complementary.
British and Portugese police to merge in hunt for Madeleine McCann
BRITISH and Portuguese detectives investigating the kidnap of Madeleine McCann are close to becoming a single task force, it was revealed yesterday.
By: John TwomeyPublished: Thu, November 28, 2013
High-level talks are taking place aimed at setting up a joint investigation team. The new squad would take advantage of European law to speed up cross-border inquiries in the bid to discover the truth about the disappearance of the three-year-old in Praia da Luz in 2007.
Negotiations to form the joint unit were revealed by Metropolitan Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.
He said: “One thing we’d like to see in the future is a joint investigation team which comes under the European community. It is a possibility legally, and we’re working together at political, police and judicial levels to see how we can construct that.”
An elite Yard squad is carrying out an investigation, code-named Operation Grange.
It is following several lines of inquiry, including reports of a man seen carrying a child wearing pyjamas close to the McCann family apartment around the time Madeleine went missing.
Portugal has its own review team looking at the disappearance from a different angle.
One line of inquiry Portuguese police are probing is whether Euclides Monteiro, who died four years ago, snatched Madeleine in an act of revenge against the holiday resort where she was staying, and from where he had been sacked the year before.
Mobile phone transmitter analysis placed his handset near the holiday apartment. The suspect, who was a heroin addict and thief from Cape Verde, off the west African coast, died in a tractor accident aged 40. His family insist he is innocent.
Sir Bernard said: “There are two separate inquiries with a different focus. But it’s important that we work together on what is clearly a common problem. It’s a formal arrangement. It allows officers from each country to work in the other country, it gives them powers associated with that and it’s an efficient way of doing it.
“If you’re not careful, you end up doing things on an ad-hoc basis, and for us it would be better to have that type of arrangement. So we’re trying to get agreement between the two governments and the two police services.”
British police received hundreds of calls and emails after recent renewed television appeals for information in the UK, Holland and Germany. They appealed for help trying to trace a man who was seen carrying a child towards the sea, and a number of fair-haired men who were hanging around the holiday apartment where Madeleine was staying.
The girl’s parents, heart specialist Gerry McCann and former GP Kate, both 45, of Rothley, Leics, declined to comment while the police inquiry is ongoing.
Their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “How the investigations are run is entirely a matter for both police forces to agree themselves.”
But a family source expressed concern about the Portuguese investigation and urged the Lisbon authorities to ensure their inquiries are complementary.
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