UPDATE FROM @MET@

https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12010p30-what-will-the-closing-of-op-grange-look-like

http://news.met.police.uk/news/update-on-the-investigation-into-the-disappearance-of-madeleine-mccann-135459?utm_campaign=mm_email_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid

Update on the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

News  •  Oct 28, 2015 14:49 GMT

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has today, 28 October announced the new structure and changes to the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

The investigation into what happened to Madeleine continues but with a smaller team of officers. Officers investigating her disappearance have completed the huge task of bringing together and investigating the massive amount of information held by colleagues in Portugal, the United Kingdom investigation and the private investigators working on behalf of the McCann family.

They are now following a small number of focused lines of inquiry that have allowed them to reduce the size of the Home Office funded team.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in May 2007 have been working through material and following investigative inquiries since the Home Office requested a review of the case in May 2011.

Operation Grange is working to support the Portuguese investigation and this work continues.

While there remain lines of inquiry to follow, the vast majority of the work by Operation Grange has been completed.

This work included reviewing all the material relating to the case which were brought together for the first time and amounted to collating over 40,000 documents from United Kingdom and foreign law enforcement agencies, as well as various private investigation companies.

Officers worked meticulously through the information. Some of the material had to be translated into English, facts had to be cross-referred and diligently analysed to ensure an oversight of what the MPS was examining and to search for new lines of inquiry.

Once this work had been completed the review became a full investigation in July 2012.

The investigation team has taken 1,338 statements and collected 1,027 exhibits. Having reviewed all of the documents, 7,154 actions were raised and 560 lines of enquiry identified, and over thirty international request to countries across the world asking for work to be undertaken on behalf of the Met.

Officers have investigated more than 60 persons of interest. A total of 650 sex offenders have also been considered as well as reports of 8,685 potential sightings of Madeleine around the world.

The Grange team received on average two hundred emails a week, and following the media appeal in October 2013 across three countries, received over 7,000 responses.

For an investigation of this size, the extraordinary circumstances of investigating a missing child four years later in another country, the vast wealth of information and theories, it was always going to be an immense task and required a full team of 29 staff working on it.

With the significant amount of work approaching completion, as with all investigations the MPS has reviewed the staff required to progress the remaining work.

A team of four officers will continue to work solely on the Grange investigation, funded by the Home Office. The enquiry has not reached a conclusion, there are still focused lines of investigation to be pursued.

The officers will continue to be overseen by Detective Chief Inspector Nicola Wall, the current senior investigating officer, and sit within an existing major investigation team on the Homicide and Major Crime Command. This will give them access to officers within that team should they be required to support further operational activity.

Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, from the MPS said: "The Met investigation has been painstaking and thorough and has for the first time brought together in one place what was disparate information across the world.

"This work has enabled us to better understand events in Praia da Luz the night Madeleine McCann went missing and ensure every possible measure is being taken to find out what happened to her.

"We still have very definite lines to pursue which is why we are keeping a dedicated team of officers working on the case. We have given this assurance to Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann.

"The Portuguese police remain the lead investigators and our team will continue to support their inquiry. They have extended every courtesy to Operation Grange and we maintain a close working relationship. I know they remain fully committed to investigating Madeleine's disappearance with support from the Metropolitan Police.

"The Met was asked to take on this exceptional case as one of national interest. We were happy to bring our expertise to bear only on the basis that it would not detract from the policing of London; and the Home Office have additionally funded the investigation above normal grants to the Met. That will continue at the reduced level.

"I have overseen this investigation since 2012 and am very grateful for the enormous assistance of the media and public so far which, through the appeals, have generated new information and lines of Inquiry. "

Our decision and rationale has been discussed with Mr and Mrs McCann.

Mr and Mrs McCann said: "We would like to thank all the staff from Operation Grange for the meticulous and painstaking work that they have carried out over the last four and a half years. The scale and difficulty of their task has never been in doubt.

"We are reassured that the investigation to find Madeleine has been significantly progressed and the MPS has a much clearer picture of the events in Praia da Luz leading up to Madeleine's abduction in 2007.

"Given that the review phase of the investigation is essentially completed, we fully understand the reasons why the team is being reduced.

"We would also like to thank the Home Office for continuing to support the investigation.

"Whilst we do not know what happened to Madeleine, we remain hopeful that she may still be found given the ongoing lines of enquiry. "

The remaining Operation Grange officers will be deployed to other enquiries within Specialist Crime and Operations.
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Mr and Mrs McCann said '"Whilst we do not know what happened to Madeleine....."

SHE WAS 'ABDUCTED', WASN'T SHE?

That's what they have been TELLING the WORLD for the last 8 1/2 YEARS!

'PLEASE 'DONATE' MONEY TO OUR PRIVATE 'SEARCH' FUND!

And there you have it from the horses mouth , they are working for the Mccanns and NOT in the Pesuit of justice

Top quality paint(Whitewash), still available in stores, ready to tart up old Metropolitan Headquarters for new owners?
No sign of Sir Bernard Hogan Howe reporting on the facts of their decision to scale back the Inquiry?
Just like the Daniel Morgan Murder case, Morgan family still awaiting "Justice" after 28 years of the Metropolitan Police investigations to catch the killer?

OMG!

BBC reporter Tom Symonds has just said 'this has cost £10.5 million so far, money provided by the government, er because of the NATIONAL IMPORTANCE, MINISTERS have said of this investigation....'

'NATIONAL IMPORTANCE'?

MINISTERS have 'said'?

:wtf2:...................I SAY!

'NATIONAL IMPORTANCE' MINISTERS have SAID?????????????

YGTBFKM!

Wow  - this case is of  National Importance.   Why exactly? 

I wonder if Ben Needham's mum/ team will be putting in a FOI request as to what qualifies as being of National Importance?

Surely we, the taxpayers of this country, are entitled to know that at least?

MRNOODLES wrote:"... the vast majority of the work by Operation Grange has been completed"  


That says it all really

I've got news for them - the majority of the work was completed by the PJ in the spring and summer of the year 2007.  Any subsequent work performed by Operation Grange is but smoke and mirrors.

Don't you just love chickens?

  Your avatar cracks me up every time I see it!

http://portugalresident.com/maddie-hunt-%E2%80%9Cdrastically%E2%80%9D-scaled-back-%E2%80%9C%C2%A310-million-spent-and-nothing-achieved%E2%80%9D-says-sky-news

Nobody encouraged at all?

Posted by portugalpress on October 28, 2015

Maddie hunt “drastically” scaled back: “£10 million spent and nothing achieved”, says Sky News

News that manpower behind Scotland Yard’s four-year investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been drastically reduced is finding mixed reaction in the world’s press. Sky News’ crime reporter Martin Brunt - who has followed the case minutely over the last eight years - said on camera this afternoon that it is a case of “£10 million spent and nothing achieved”.
Elsewhere, news channels are simply repeating the official statement put out earlier this afternoon, while social media is aflame with what many have labelled an exercise in PR spin and whitewash.
For now, Portuguese media has not indicated whether the truncated Operation Grange - reduced from 29 full-time staff to just four officers - is due to make any more visits back to Portugal.
The news comes in a week where, curiously, “Maddie stories” have yet again peppered the popular press. As often happens before any kind of ‘serious announcement’, fluff pieces have surfaced and almost instantly disappeared. On Sunday in UK, the Sunday People led with a long exposé on a man who took hundreds of photographs in and around Praia da Luz during the time Madeleine went missing, and who was long ago discounted as a person of interest despite the discovery of unrelated DNA in his holiday apartment. These photographs are now being studied by Grange, Portuguese press has today confirmed.
Almost certainly tomorrow there will be further news this end as to whether new rogatory letters have been received and whether new interviews in Portugal will be forthcoming. Tony Symonds of the BBC has tweeted that the remaining officers will be focusing “on a small number of definite lines of inquiry” - while the McCann family are quoted as having thanked police for the “meticulous and painstaking work that they have carried out for the last four-and-a-half years”, pursuing “disparate information across the world” and investigating “more than 60 persons of interest”
What is intriguing in this latest statement is that news services and police are no longer talking about an abduction. The investigation centres on “the disappearance of Madeleine McCann”, explained the statement put out by Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, and Sky News too refers to the case constantly now as a “disappearance”.
The McCann’s however continue to talk of “abduction”. Speaking outside Scotland Yard this afternoon, the McCann's press spokesman Clarence Mitchell said Madeleine's parents were buoyed by the fact that they still feel there is no evidence to suggest their daughter "has come to any harm".
The Met's official statement came the very day the public appeal to raise money to help former Maddie detective Gonçalo Amaral in the legal fight instigated against him six years ago by the McCanns was temporarily closed down, having raised over €73,000 in six months - largely from people based in UK.

natasha.donn@algarveresident.com

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"What is intriguing in this latest statement is that news services and police are no longer talking about AN ABDUCTION."

Wasn't 'THE ABDUCTION' (of Madeleine McCann, £20,000 'reward') the ONLY 'game in town' (remit) for OG for over 4 1/2 YEARS?

Strange words from the Mc.  Over 4 years on and the Grange (bungled) hasn't found Madeleine and they don't seem to be fury ....at the incompetent Grange in the same way they were furious with PJ cursing and swearing the Portuguese Police.

In fact they seemed relief, thanking Mets and Home Office...even before conclusion by METs is announced.

All very bizarre.
Why the hell the press felt necessary to publish their comments together with METs interim report is an enigma.

4 remaining officers have until next March before the Home Office's fund expiry date and they too will be withdrawn.  If they haven't solved the case and found the perpeprator/s during the past 4 years...how is the ensuing few months going to make a difference?

When Grange throws up a report listing exact figures of what they did, it's not good sign. It's merely stating the extent of their work but no useful message in the figures throw-about which isn't necessary and not something usual they would do if they are closing in on perpetrator/s and about to take to dock.  Police never gave report by listing exact figures of their tasks etc.  MET's method of reporting (listing figures detail) is unprecedented as is everything to do with this case.  

It's uncanny. It's as if they are answering the petition, even before petition numbers is reached - there you go, that's how we spent the money !  

Hopeful or Hopeless, me thinks the writing is pretty much on the wall.

ETA:  Announcement coincides with organiser calling time on Gofundme Amaral fund.  Freaky or what ?

What a load of crap coming from OG  seems like the real investigation has been done here at the forum with remarkable insight too and without any cost

Mr and Mrs McCann said '"Whilst we do not know what happened to Madeleine....."
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Which, of course, 'implies', no, 'states', that OG ALSO 'do not know' what 'happened' to Madeleine'!

After a 38 'strong' police 'detectives and staff', full time, 4 1/2 YEARS 'investigation'

If OG 'knew' what had 'happened' ('to' Madeleine) the McCann's WOULD have been kept 'fully informed' as the MET like to tell us, they are, of 'every developement' at OG.

Post card to DCI Nichola Wall and close colleagues "Operation Grange,Abduction".
Hamish and Andy ,hope you are well and sticking to our remit, busy setting up a new adventure here in Jamaica, assisting the Jamaican Police on how to prepare Investigation Remits?
Special thanks to our Commander,Bernard Hogan Howe, for allowing us to assist him and our Prime Minister, being strong armed by the fragrant Rebekah Brooks on behalf of a wonderful couple, along with dear Rupert, in using supporting evidence for DCI Nichola Wall to be near completion of such an arduous task remit to follow, as per Crime Watch October 2013.
Hope you are keeping well and tara for now, as Sir Cliff has invited us to a Barbecue and ultra cold beers in this fine climate.
LOL,Hamish and Andy
XXXX

The McCann’s however continue to talk of “abduction”. Speaking outside Scotland Yard this afternoon, the McCann's press spokesman Clarence Mitchell said Madeleine's parents were buoyed by the fact that they still feel there is no evidence to suggest their daughter "has come to any harm".


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What utter rubbish. I thought that Kate and Gerry and their friends thought it was likely that Madeleine had been abducted by a paedophile or into a paedophile ring. So presumably they think that Madeleine is happy and thriving with her paedophile abductors then?

HOW can they get away with this UTTER NONSENSE??

[size=40]McCanns 'remain hopeful' as police scale back hunt for missing Madeleine after 8 years[/size]

THE hunt for missing Madeleine McCann has been massively scaled back today after a eight-year long investigation.

By REBECCA PERRING
PUBLISHED: 15:04, Wed, Oct 28, 2015 | UPDATED: 16:30, Wed, Oct 28, 2015


The team of 29 British detectives who have been searching for the little girl, who vanished from her parents' holiday apartment in Portugal in May 2007, will be reduced to just four who will focus solely on the child's dissapearance. 

It is believed they were concentrating on one main suspect, who died two years ago. 

The Metropoltian Police was tasked with investigating the disappearance after Maddie's parents Kate and Gerry McCann made a personal plea to Prime Minister David Cameron in 2011. 

Yet despite costing the taxpayer a staggering £10million and dozens of trips by officers to the Algarve the inquiry - codenamed Operation Grange - has not led to a single arrest. 

Even though Kate, 47, and Gerry, 46, live in Rothley, Leicestershire, Scotland Yard was handed the investigation because of its expertise in investigating complex murder cases. 

Operation Grange was set up to review the original Portuguese police probe into the disappearance of Madeleine, then three, from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007.

After the Portuguese inquiry was shelved as "unsolved", the McCanns, who remain convinced their daughter is still alive, appealed to Mr Cameron for his assistance.

So far the investigation team has taken 1,338 statements and collected 1,027 exhibits.

Having reviewed all of the documents, 7,154 actions were raised and 560 lines of enquiry identified, and over thirty international request to countries across the world asking for work to be undertaken on behalf of the Met.

Officers have investigated more than 60 persons of interest. A total of 650 sex offenders have also been considered as well as reports of 8,685 potential sightings of Madeleine around the world.

Since the little girl, who would now be 11, vanished, every possible theory has been explored including that she was kidnapped by a peadophile, killed during a botched burglary and her body dumped, snatched by traffickers and sold to a childless couple and she wandered out of the apartment and died in a tragic accident. 

However, to date, not one shred of proof of what happened to Madeleine has been unearthed. 

The question of what happened to the little girl has not only become a personal tragedy for the McCann family, but a national obsession in the UK and in Portugal. 

Mr and Mrs McCann said they still did not know what had happened to their daughter.

They said: "We would like to thank all the staff from Operation Grange for the meticulous and painstaking work that they have carried out over the last four and a half years. The scale and difficulty of their task has never been in doubt.

"We are reassured that the investigation to find Madeleine has been significantly progressed and the MPS has a much clearer picture of the events in Praia da Luz leading up to Madeleine's abduction in 2007.

"Given that the review phase of the investigation is essentially completed, we fully understand the reasons why the team is being reduced.

"We would also like to thank the Home Office for continuing to support the investigation.

"Whilst we do not know what happened to Madeleine, we remain hopeful that she may still be found given the ongoing lines of enquiry. "

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/615298/Madeleine-McCann-missing-search-called-off-Scotland-Yard




Who died 2 years ago?

It is believed they were concentrating on one main suspect, who died two years ago. 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who is believing this rubbish?

Let me guess.

Don't think this comes as any great surprise really does it? Most guessed what this case was really all about from the get go. So seeing as it looks like OG/SY are rapping things up by the looks of things, wonder where this leaves the case as far as Portugal goes? Will something, anything be forthcoming from them seeing as they have jurisdiction of the case, and could they call the final shots on it? Or will they go with the general consensus of OG/SY and rap it up as well and call it quits?

BlueBag wrote:

It is believed they were concentrating on one main suspect, who died two years ago. 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who is believing this rubbish?

Let me guess.

No one i would hope.

BlueBag wrote:

It is believed they were concentrating on one main suspect, who died two years ago. 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who is believing this rubbish?

Let me guess.

Which is all very odd, seeing that THREE Portuguese citizens were 'arguidoed', in grand 'fanfare', at ex IO at OG, DCI Redwood's 'request' LESS than 2 years ago!

The 'schitzo druggie' the 'young man' and the 'taxi man'

He 'tried' to get 'pig man' and 'russian man' 'arguidoed' as well, but was 'told' 'where to go' with those 2!

Whatever 'happened' to Redwood's 3 'arguidos', incidentally?

Is 'it is believed' the 'same' as OG 'reckon'? ('that Madeleine was 'taken away' by a 'strange, bungling, paedo, burglator')

When all else fails. Fall back on #StitchUpAStiff

Joss 'asked'

"So ,seeing as it looks like OG/SY are rapping things up by the looks of things, I wonder where this leaves the case as far as Portugal goes?"
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'archiving' NOT 'closing', the 'case' for years, until new 'evidence' possibly 'emerges' and 'releasing' all their luvverly 'files' which will show us the 'full extent' of the 'co-operation, or not' of their 'colleagues' from the MPS, @OG?

Can't 'wait' for 'THAT'!

'Call me Stu!'

jeanmonroe wrote:Joss 'asked'

"So ,seeing as it looks like OG/SY are rapping things up by the looks of things, I wonder where this leaves the case as far as Portugal goes?"
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'archiving' NOT 'closing', the 'case' for years, until new 'evidence' possibly 'emerges' and 'releasing' all their luvverly 'files' which will show us the 'full extent' of the 'co-operation, or not' of their 'colleagues' from the MPS, @OG?

Can't 'wait' for 'THAT'!

'Call me Stu!'

Yeah, will be interesting to see if we ever do actually get to see it?

Joss wrote:

"Yeah, will be interesting to see if we ever do actually get to see it? " (the PJ 'second' tranche of files)
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Under Portuguese LAW, the files, of a 'shelved/archived' case HAVE TO BE 'released' into the public 'domain'.

Why do you think, OG, didn't close down, YEARS ago?

Because they 'don't have a clue' (a bit like their 4 1/2 YEARS 'full time, investigation' of a 'missing' child) WHAT is 'in' the PJ 'files' since the PJ 're-opened' their 'investigation'

But, oh, OG have 'tried' to find out, oh, how they've TRIED!