Why did the search for a missing child turn into a conspiracy?
This case all started out as a search for a missing child so how did it end up with the parents of that child becoming suspects (albeit for a short time) in her disappearance and possible demise?
Who's idea was it to bring in cadaver dogs in the first place to search for human remains?
On Friday 20th July 2007 the PJ asked the UK police for assistance with further searching for Madeleine. On Saturday 21st July 2007 the top British expert from the UK was in Portugal determining what was needed and what was possible. So much for Amaral's claim that the UK police did not cooperate!
The request was directed at this end to Mark Harrison who was the National Adviser responsible for advising UK Police Forces on search techniques and it was him who flew out immediately on receiving the request.
He responded with a number of suggestions including use of an EVRD and CSI dog team and GPR expertise.
It is interesting that there was (I believe only one dog team in the UK (I stand to be corrected if wrong)) which described the dogs as EVRD and CSI. That was Grime.
I find it a little odd that Harrison was able to provide the costs of this team to the PJ but while writing this initial report simply states that he did not know the costs of other VRD dog teams which could be sourced from other places in Europe and the USA as well as the UK. If he got the costs of Grime's team why could he not get the costs of other teams to put in the report? He didn't manage to provide any costs for GPR teams either.
It was Mark Harrison, then of the NPIA (where Lee Rainbow worked, the man who the month before had also conducted a report for the PJ) who introduced the PJ to Grime's dog team, Eddie and Keela.
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