Maddie McCann breakthrough: Cops 'given cash to probe new trafficking gang lead'

[jassi]

The report I read spoke of having id'ed a specific individual they are trying to locate.  That sounds like a breakthrough to me.

A Tabloid report from an unnamed source. SY giving nothing away, as usual.
Not the sort of source you would normally pay attention to.

[slartibartfast]

The report I read spoke of having id'ed a specific individual they are trying to locate.  That sounds like a breakthrough to me.

Sounds like someone decided to throw Smithman into the mix.

[Brietta]

As the link on my other post showed, investigating resources in SY appear to come in at over £200k pa, £85k for 6 months doesn't get you much.

https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmic/wp-content/uploads/metropolitan-value-for-money-profile-2014.pdf

If that is the link to which you refer it is hardly current as I am sure investigative costs will have escalated like almost everything else in the intervening period between then in 2014 and now in 2017.

The point you have failed to pick up on is that most of the work appears to have been done and the fact that there is still work needed to be done is evident by the Home Office agreeing to fund it.

Keeping to the arrangement that the policing budget would not be touched to finance Operation Grange.

I am sure Scotland Yard would probably have liked more than £85K ... but if that is the grant ... that is what will have been assessed as adequate to do what still remains to be done.

Justice doesn't come cheap.

However there is an organisation in existence I believe which was founded to achieve JUSTICE FOR MADELEINE. 

Perhaps the members would not baulk at setting up a gofundme page  or something of that sort to add to the Home Office  contribution to Scotland Yard.
Who are after all working towards the same aim ... JUSTICE FOR MADELEINE.

I think it is called ... put your money where your mouth is.

[Alfie]

A Tabloid report from an unnamed source. SY giving nothing away, as usual.
Not the sort of source you would normally pay attention to.

There has to be a reason why more funds were granted, this is an obvious reason.  A lead that needs following up.  T's certainly a far more credible reason than Mrs May is terrified of bad publicity.

[Alfie]

Sounds like someone decided to throw Smithman into the mix.

Eh?  Smithman has been on the most wanted list for years.  If it was Gerry they wouldn't need an extra £85k to locate him, I'd tell them for the price of a phone call.

[Alfie]

So say the government refused the Met's request for more money and the case had to be shelved or closed.  How does that impact on the Government exactly?  Does it put a spanner in Brexit plans?  Does it impact on the chances of the Tories winning the next election?  Will all the furore about Phil Hammond's budget be swept aside by the far more devastating news that the Met have failed to find Madeleine?  What do sceptics think would happen?

[jassi]

There has to be a reason why more funds were granted, this is an obvious reason.  A lead that needs following up.  T's certainly a far more credible reason than Mrs May is terrified of bad publicity.

Probably easier to bung a few thousand at it than admit defeat, particularly while the PJ investigation appears to be carrying on.

[Brietta]

Eh?  Smithman has been on the most wanted list for years.  If it was Gerry they wouldn't need an extra £85k to locate him, I'd tell them for the price of a phone call.

I believe a lot of people did when the Crimewatch programme was broadcast and the police were seeking information ... if the calls were mischievous how did that contribute to either helping or reducing the costs of the investigation,

It may have cost them the price of a phone call ... but they were abusing resources which cost money.

[barrier]

Its the last throw of the dice,oh hang on so was the one about the snatch squad from Belgium.

Express 2017:

Senior officers admit the investigation of the new lead is the “last throw of the dice” in their hunt.

Express 2016:

DETECTIVES investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will take "one last throw of the dice" after a fresh tip-off suggested she was kidnapped by a European trafficking gang.

For balance there are course other news outlets available.

[Alfie]

Probably easier to bung a few thousand at it than admit defeat, particularly while the PJ investigation appears to be carrying on.

If the PJ investigation is carrying on then why not wind up the Met investigation saying the PJ have got it all in hand, we trust them to get a resolution and then Portugal can pay for it? 

[Alfie]

Its the last throw of the dice,oh hang on so was the one about the snatch squad from Belgium.

Express 2017:
Express 2016:
For balance there are course other news outlets available.

"last throw of the dice" is a tabloid sensationalist expression and means nothing, sorry to disappoint.

[jassi]

If the PJ investigation is carrying on then why not wind up the Met investigation saying the PJ have got it all in hand, we trust them to get a resolution and then Portugal can pay for it?

What, spend over 12 mil for no result and then hand it over to some foreign force?  Not bl**dy  likely   

[barrier]

As the link on my other post showed, investigating resources in SY appear to come in at over £200k pa, £85k for 6 months doesn't get you much.

Thats £10,000 down on last years Aprils allowance.

[barrier]

"last throw of the dice" is a tabloid sensationalist expression and means nothing, sorry to disappoint.

Along with any thing else,take it with a pinch of salt.

The report I read spoke of having id'ed a specific individual they are trying to locate.  That sounds like a breakthrough to me.

[ferryman]

"last throw of the dice" is a tabloid sensationalist expression and means nothing, sorry to disappoint.

You shouldn't be "sorry" (to disappoint).

I'm sure you aren't.