Not a very good example...family related kidnappings? Reminds me of the "children being found years later" which were stolen from hospital by another family member therefore there is hope! Honestly.
As for the PJ, they were inundated with hundreds of "sightings" from all over the world...do you seriously think they had the capacity to personally investigate every single one to the nth degree? Especially as most of them had nothing much to go on... Yea, we shall see. Perhaps you can cite an example where the PJ did not follow up what they could in relation to any relevant "sighting"
What nonsense.
Mr McCluskey's sighting occurred on the 5th May.
His statement is dated 7th May.
How many hundreds of worldwide sightings were the PJ dealing with? No wonder we are still wondering what happened to Madeleine McCann if this is the way they handled the business of looking for her in the days after her disappearance.
Reading cites supplied can be so boring particularly if it gets in the way of deeply cherished prejudices.
The forum thread I indicated to you does not refer to family abduction.
It concerns a family who kidnapped an unrelated child allegedly to be used in a custody battle; they were in possession of their own child's passport which they obviously intended to use to take the child they had abducted across borders.
It happens ... and it is one of the issues a competent police force could have been expected to check out on Madeleine's behalf.