General discussion about the latest news (not search related)

[slartibartfast]

I wonder why they didn't look at the 28 sightings in Malta, nor the several around Porto?

Overwhelm them a little more.

[mercury]

I think the blanket appeal for information...

Overwhelmed the investigators and significantly hampered the search.

I agree
By appealng to almost every country that was the result

Chaos mayhem and waste of time not to mention harm to some children and their families vis a vis morocco and india and new zealand being forced to prove who they were!!!

Meanwhile the mccanns told the world in tv interviews not a single sighting was their daughter but still carried on

[misty]

I agree
By appealng to almost every country that was the result

Chaos mayhem and waste of time not to mention harm to some children and their families vis a vis morocco and india and new zealand being forced to prove who they were!!!

Meanwhile the mccanns told the world in tv interviews not a single sighting was their daughter but still carried on

Are you of the opinion the general public should be actively discouraged from contacting the police with possible leads or information regarding missing people because it could have an adverse effect on workloads?

[mercury]

Are you of the opinion the general public should be actively discouraged from contacting the police with possible leads or information regarding missing people because it could have an adverse effect on workloads?

What do you think?
appealing to all countries is GOING to GENERATE LOTS of false leads
Which leads to a bunch of wasted manhours which are taken  away from honed searches

Pls qute another case where ths has happened

[slartibartfast]

Are you of the opinion the general public should be actively discouraged from contacting the police with possible leads or information regarding missing people because it could have an adverse effect on workloads?

I think restricting the search to the area around the Iberian peninsula may have helped.

[misty]

What do you think?
appealing to all countries is GOING to GENERATE LOTS of false leads
Which leads to a bunch of wasted manhours which are taken  away from honed searches

Pls qute another case where ths has happened

Do you think the PJ officers personally flew abroad to check each & every sighting - or rather that the police in the individual countries actually checked matters out & reported back?

[mercury]

Do you think the PJ officers personally flew abroad to check each & every sighting - or rather that the police in the individual countries actually checked matters out & reported back?

Appealing to the whole world harmed the search

Thats the point

[sadie]

Appealing to the whole world harmed the search

Thats the point

Rubbish.... (soz mercury!)

How do you KNOW that ?

[Eleanor]

Appealing to the whole world harmed the search

Thats the point

No, it did not.  Such a silly thing to say.  It did no harm.  How can it have done?  At worst it did nothing at all.

[mercury]

Rubbish.... (soz mercury!)

How do you KNOW that ?

It stands to reason and has been borne out by hundreds or is it thousands false sightings...

[mercury]

No, it did not.  Such a silly thing to say.  It did no harm.  How can it have done?  At worst it did nothing at all.

Depeleted police sources from focused searches eleanor

[sadie]

Depeleted police sources from focused searches eleanor

And what if one of those sightings had been the special one?

The Police didn't bother to check them because Amaral had decided Madeleine was dead, and that the parents were involved.  No proof, nothing to indicate that.  But he didn't bother to check the sightings.

How disgusting is that !

[mercury]

And what if one of those sightings had been the special one?

The Police didn't bother to check them because Amaral had decided Madeleine was dead, and that the parents were involved.  No proof, nothing to indicate that.  But he didn't bother to check the sightings.

How disgusting is that !

Cite pls

[misty]

Cite pls

http://www.policeprofessional.com/news.aspx?id=27451


Maddie McCann hunt in numbers: Public’s 8,685 ‘sightings’ over 101 countries
18 Oct 2016

<B><i>Maddie McCann: Charting a history</B></i>
Maddie McCann: Charting a history
The nine-year search for Leicestershire youngster Madeleine McCann has involved an A to Z of police forces across the globe.

Potential sightings of the British three-year old – snatched in May 2007 in Portugal – total 8,685 across 101 countries and territories, a Freedom of Information request reveals.

Many were collated by Portuguese officers and stamped ‘NFA’ – No Further Action – as they believed the child was dead.

Since May 2011 the Metropolitan Police Service has collated reported sightings – which stretch from French Polynesia to New Zealand – under the auspices of Operation Grange.

There has been a reported sighting of Madeleine in the UK, on February 20, 2008 when a retired civil servant reported that a Portuguese couple who knocked on his door in Dorset had a blonde-haired child with them he was sure was the missing girl. The couple were never traced.




By Nick Hudson

[ShiningInLuz]

http://www.policeprofessional.com/news.aspx?id=27451


Maddie McCann hunt in numbers: Public’s 8,685 ‘sightings’ over 101 countries
18 Oct 2016

<B><i>Maddie McCann: Charting a history</B></i>
Maddie McCann: Charting a history
The nine-year search for Leicestershire youngster Madeleine McCann has involved an A to Z of police forces across the globe.

Potential sightings of the British three-year old – snatched in May 2007 in Portugal – total 8,685 across 101 countries and territories, a Freedom of Information request reveals.

Many were collated by Portuguese officers and stamped ‘NFA’ – No Further Action – as they believed the child was dead.

Since May 2011 the Metropolitan Police Service has collated reported sightings – which stretch from French Polynesia to New Zealand – under the auspices of Operation Grange.

There has been a reported sighting of Madeleine in the UK, on February 20, 2008 when a retired civil servant reported that a Portuguese couple who knocked on his door in Dorset had a blonde-haired child with them he was sure was the missing girl. The couple were never traced.

By Nick Hudson

So another myth does NOT get started, does anyone know how many countries Madeleine was supposedly seen in?

This is a re-hash of the Madeleine-seen-in-101-countries by Antonella Lazzeri in The Sun.