Maddie cops pursue mysterious woman in purple?

[Robittybob1]

https://youtu.be/2AoxCkySv34  Sesame Street: Counting Bats with the Count - Four

[Alice Purjorick]

Trace, Investigate, Evaluate - that's how UK police work. There's absolutely no point in placing all the eggs in one basket in case the basket has a hole in it.

Almost out of the same basket as:
"Do not despise the snake because it has no horns, for who is to say, it will not become a dragon".

https://www.app.college.police.uk/app-content/investigations/working-with-suspects/
"The term trace/interview/eliminate (TIE) is taken from major incident investigation. Some forces use alternative terminology (trace/implicate/eliminate, trace/implicate/evaluate) but this does not affect the procedures for TIE enquiries".

Hmmm UK SOP "Trace and implicate".... &%+((£

[G-Unit]

Just not in tune with my sense of humour.
Love Have I got news for you.
Would I lie to you.
And my all-time favourite Yes Minister and Yes Prime minister.
Nothing funny in the investigation of a missing child..
Perhaps makes me a party pooper.

i think it's called black humour like this award-winning cartoon about Hillsborough.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/dave-brown-wins-cartoonist-of-year-at-uk-press-awards-2013-8525601.html#gallery

[Erngath]

i think it's called black humour like this award-winning cartoon about Hillsborough.

Not at a
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/dave-brown-wins-cartoonist-of-year-at-uk-press-awards-2013-8525601.html#gallery

I think you misjudge the point of some political cartoons.
I see that as more thought-provoking than funny ha ha.
And incidentally clever in its execution.

[Robittybob1]

i think it's called black humour like this award-winning cartoon about Hillsborough.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/dave-brown-wins-cartoonist-of-year-at-uk-press-awards-2013-8525601.html#gallery

You have to know so much background before it is funny - Hillsborough? 

[John]

To be fair, Operation Grange don't have an awfully good record of achieving any follow-through in this case what with everything that has happened since they started to investigate Madeleine's disappearance.  You really can't blame some folks for being cynical every time a hot new lead is announced by The Sun. 

[G-Unit]

To be fair, Operation Grange don't have an awfully good record of achieving any follow-through in this case what with everything that has happened since they started to investigate Madeleine's disappearance.  You really can't blame some folks for being cynical every time a hot new lead is announced by The Sun. 

According to Kate McCann's book the Chief Constable of LP intervened with the media in 2007;

"On 17 September, the chief constable wrote to newspapers and broadcasters urging restraint, to little effect. On 8 October he sent a further letter, again making it clear that much of the media coverage simply had no foundation and that rumour appeared to have taken precedence over due diligence."

I wonder if the Met have tried to rein the media in during their investigation? If so, it seems to have had no more effect than those previous attempts.

[Benice]

According to Kate McCann's book the Chief Constable of LP intervened with the media in 2007;

"On 17 September, the chief constable wrote to newspapers and broadcasters urging restraint, to little effect. On 8 October he sent a further letter, again making it clear that much of the media coverage simply had no foundation and that rumour appeared to have taken precedence over due diligence."

I wonder if the Met have tried to rein the media in during their investigation? If so, it seems to have had no more effect than those previous attempts.

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Didn't the PT team threaten to cease their re-investigations if our press 'abused' them (words to that effect) - resulting in a plea for responsible reporting from Kate McCann?   (from memory).

[Carana]

I think you misjudge the point of some political cartoons.
I see that as more thought-provoking than funny ha ha.
And incidentally clever in its execution.

You took the words out of my mouth, Erngath.

[G-Unit]

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Didn't the PT team threaten to cease their re-investigations if our press 'abused' them (words to that effect) - resulting in a plea for responsible reporting from Kate McCann?   (from memory).

As I recall Scotland Yard appealed for restraint because the PJ threatened to pull out if the UK press ran wild with speculation, but I can't find it just now. I don't recall Kate McCann's input.

[Carana]

As I recall Scotland Yard appealed for restraint because the PJ threatened to pull out if the UK press ran wild with speculation, but I can't find it just now. I don't recall Kate McCann's input.

We're all going off memory. Mine is that there were two different situations. One was the UK police requesting media back-off due to PT sensitivities, and the other was Kate over photos that had somehow got leaked over potential supsects.

[Brietta]

We're all going off memory. Mine is that there were two different situations. One was the UK police requesting media back-off due to PT sensitivities, and the other was Kate over photos that had somehow got leaked over potential supsects.

Mark Rowley, assistant commissioner of the Met, on Tuesday, in an open letter to the media, called for restraint. "This case has for some time been moving towards increased action in Portugal … I now believe that that activity will occur in forthcoming weeks … I have been discussing with my opposite number in the policia judiciaria the high levels of interest that the action (especially when some of it will take place in public) will generate in the British media."

Rowley said the British police were operating under Portuguese law and his opposite number in Portugal did not intend – as had been the Met's practice – to brief the media on the search. He appealed for restraint and understanding from the media and said that the Portuguese police chief had been clear "that if we provide any briefings or information on the work they are undertaking on our behalf, or if reporters cause any disruption to their work in Portugal, activity will cease".
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/06/madeleine-mccann-british-police-forensic-experts-radar-search

[barrier]

Mark Rowley  recently had this to say in the question and answer session back in April.

Q: There was a report recently that there was an international manhunt in regards to a person you
were interested in talking to, maybe not even a suspect, maybe a witness?
MR: There are odd headlines and odd stories in newspapers on a regular basis and most of those are
nonsense.

[jassi]

Mark Rowley  recently had this to say in the question and answer session back in April.

An  answer that nicely avoids the question

[misty]

There appears to have been an appeal of some sort on German TV.