Does anyone still believe that the investigation is active?

[Admin]

Does anyone still believe that the investigation is active?

Please discuss.

[Holly Goodhead]

Does anyone still believe that the investigation is active?

Please discuss.

Well OG have fairly recently received a tranche of money from HO so I guess they must be doing something?

[Brietta]

Does anyone still believe that the investigation is active?

Please discuss.

As long as there is something to investigate they will keep the investigation going.  Apart from having to justify a budget I don't believe they would go beyond the point of if or when lines of enquiry become exhausted.

Therefore I believe the investigation hasn't reached its conclusion yet.

[barrier]

Well OG have fairly recently received a tranche of money from HO so I guess they must be doing something?

Strange why the HO funds when the case is in support of the PJ,the FO would be the go to surely.

[barrier]

Does anyone still believe that the investigation is active?

Please discuss.

Guess we'll never know,with the murder rate in the capital as it is,one must wonder how many are solely assigned to grange, if any.

[The General]

The scope and veracity is the actual question.
£130k does not go far. I reckon 4 bodies, plus prelims (IT, ad hoc support, etc).
I assume it will be the easiest touch going - apart from the lack of over time. Bobbies love overtime.
There's every chance there's a couple of phone jockys full time and two bobbies part time, one sergeant, one PC.
Again, I'm assuming, but I doubt it's full scale incident room like CSI: Miami, probably a portacabin in the car park.

[jassi]

Guess we'll never know,with the murder rate in the capital as it is,one must wonder how many are solely assigned to grange, if any.

We can be sure that DCI 'Wonder woman' Wall will be spending her time more productively investigating current crime, rather than mulling over a cold case.

IMO

[G-Unit]

We can be sure that DCI 'Wonder woman' Wall will be spending her time more productively investigating current crime, rather than mulling over a cold case.

IMO

Assuming she's not retired, of course.

[Brietta]

The scope and veracity is the actual question.
£130k does not go far. I reckon 4 bodies, plus prelims (IT, ad hoc support, etc).
I assume it will be the easiest touch going - apart from the lack of over time. Bobbies love overtime.
There's every chance there's a couple of phone jockys full time and two bobbies part time, one sergeant, one PC.
Again, I'm assuming, but I doubt it's full scale incident room like CSI: Miami, probably a portacabin in the car park.

Your assumption appears to belie the fact that many lessons have already been learned from the conduct of Madeleine McCann's case.

In 2010 it was discovered that Ricardo Piava direct from the portakabin where he allegedly broadcast information regarding body parts ... was also sitting on the Portuguese investigative files of which he was in charge and about which he was doing absolutely nothing except stamping them as irrelevant.
The inaction you suggest has therefore already been done and took two years of information out of Madeleine's case and may very well be why Porto Policia Judiciaria took over the case.  It won't easily be allowed again imo.

Thanks to FOI here and the courts in Portugal it really isn't as easy as you think it is to cover up the malfeasance practised by some police officers such as Paiva.

[ShiningInLuz]

We can be sure that DCI 'Wonder woman' Wall will be spending her time more productively investigating current crime, rather than mulling over a cold case.

IMO

In a recent post on my blog I suggested that DCI Nicola Wall appears to have retired, and that DCI Katherine Goodwin appears to have drawn the short straw in inheriting Wall's open cases.

[G-Unit]

Your assumption appears to belie the fact that many lessons have already been learned from the conduct of Madeleine McCann's case.

In 2010 it was discovered that Ricardo Piava direct from the portakabin where he allegedly broadcast information regarding body parts ... was also sitting on the Portuguese investigative files of which he was in charge and about which he was doing absolutely nothing except stamping them as irrelevant.
The inaction you suggest has therefore already been done and took two years of information out of Madeleine's case and may very well be why Porto Policia Judiciaria took over the case.  It won't easily be allowed again imo.

Thanks to FOI here and the courts in Portugal it really isn't as easy as you think it is to cover up the malfeasance practised by some police officers such as Paiva.

A team from Porto carried out a review. The reopened case is in the hands of the Judiciary and the PJ in Portimao, as the first investigation was.

[barrier]

In a recent post on my blog I suggested that DCI Nicola Wall appears to have retired, and that DCI Katherine Goodwin appears to have drawn the short straw in inheriting Wall's open cases.

If its the case,Madeleine's disappearance saw off another SY officer.Still she had a good 5 yrs at it.
They seek him here,they seek seek him there,the peelers seek him everywhere.

[Holly Goodhead]

Does anyone still believe that the investigation is active?

Please discuss.

Probably not after my tip-offs!

[Angelo222]

We can be sure that DCI 'Wonder woman' Wall will be spending her time more productively investigating current crime, rather than mulling over a cold case.

IMO

I would think so. IMO all lines of enquiry, in as much as their remit allows, have been exhausted with OG doing nothing more than waiting out any new developments.

[Angelo222]

If its the case,Madeleine's disappearance saw off another SY officer.Still she had a good 5 yrs at it.
They seek him here,they seek seek him there,the peelers seek him everywhere.

A senior officer will always be assigned to every case but their involvement in Madeline will be very minimal. They will have real and active policing to be getting on with on a daily basis.