Cressida Dick: We'll never stop looking for Maddie

THE QUESTION IS, WHO IS GOING TO KEEP PAYING? THE TAXPAYER?

Do you have the link to that report sallypelt please?

Verdi wrote:Do you have the link to that report sallypelt please?

https://news.sky.com/story/thursdays-national-newspaper-front-pages-11586341

It's on one of the newspapers on that link, Verdi. They are tomorrow's headlines

Ta    I searched through the Daily Star as it stands now but couldn't see the article.  Admittedly it's taking ages to load all the rubbish they publish and the page is jumping about all over the place.

The Sky tomorrow's headlines as you point out quotes Cressida Dick as being the source .

Roll up roll up - read all about it. 

The sub editor must be watching CMoMM   it's there now as the online edition headline ..

Maddie hunt will NEVER stop until she’s found – UK top cop’s new pledge to McCanns

MADDIE McCann detectives will not give up the hunt even though cash is so tight more officers could lose their jobs, Britain's top police chief has said.

Jerry Lawton / Published 20th December 2018

Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick said the controversial Operation Grange inquiry into the youngster's 2007 disappearance in Portugal will go on until it “has reached its conclusion”.

She revealed she was part of the team that set up the investigation eight years ago following a personal plea by Madeleine's doctor parents Kate and Gerry to then prime minister David Cameron.

Then an assistant commissioner in the Met, Dick said she had supported the move by the London-based force to launch a probe into the mystery even though it appeared to have no jurisdiction.

Since then Scotland Yard has spent nearly £12million of taxpayers' cash on the inquiry but no-one has been charged.

In November the Home Office granted the force an extra £150,000 to continue the probe until at least April next year.

The move sparked criticism from the Police Federation and some former Met officers who argued the money would be better spent tackling London's record number of homicides, knife crime and terrorism.

The commissioner said she understood their concerns but felt the Madeleine investigation was too important to shelve and she had set no time limit on it.

Dick said: “I was there when it was set up originally.

“I remember when this piece of work was started and why.

“I was an AC at the time.

“I can understand why some people may feel differently but I think it is quite right that we should continue until it has reached its conclusion.”

Dick admitted the Met was still short of cash despite Home Secretary Sajid Javid last week pledging an extra £1bn to forces nationwide.

The commissioner said the Met could benefit from an extra £84m if London mayor Sadiq Khan chose to generate the maximum amount permissible via council tax rises.

But she admitted that may not be enough to save officers' jobs following years of cutbacks.

However she said that would not impact on Operation Grange.

“I am quite happy it should continue until we find out what happened or we have exhausted all possible lines of inquiry,” she said.

“It's not a huge amount of money and it's not large number of officers.''

Referring to the force's determination to trace and bring to justice the poisoners of Salisbury spy Sergie Skripal she added: ``We never give up in the Met.

“We never have.

“We never forget.”

The news will come as a massive boost to Madeleine's parents who earlier this year had feared it could shelved and they would have to fund private detectives to continue the search.

Then-three-year-old Madeleine vanished from the family's holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz 11 years ago while her parents dined with pals in a nearby tapas bar.

Portuguese police archived the case as `unsolved' in 2008.

They are now working alongside Met detectives in a bid to determine what happened.

Last month it was revealed both forces were probing if Madeleine had come to harm after walking out of the apartment in a bid to find her parents.

Until then the Met thought she either disturbed burglars or was abducted.

The McCanns continue to believe she was snatched from her bed by an intruder and may still be alive.

Ms Dick declined to discuss “operational details”.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/749092/maddie-madeleine-mccann-investigation-kate-and-gerry-police-cressida-dick
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Come on Dicky, put our money where yer mouth is - and remember, we never forget either.

Tracey, can we have another cut and paste 'buoyed' moment for Christmas today? Haven't had one for a long time.

She's on it Doug.

Not Tracey...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6515103/Police-continue-hunt-Madeleine-McCann.html

Police will continue to hunt for Madeleine McCann | Daily Mail Online Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick has pledged to continue the search for Madeleine McCann, after the operation into her disappearance was granted an extra £150,000 by the Home Office. www.dailymail.co.uk

Interesting use of language...

The police commissioner defended the long-running operation and said it 'would be right to continue until it has reached its conclusion.'



NOT . ". . .until she is found"

If only Jeremy Corbyn could mouth a comment in Ms Dick's direction.

Dick by name dicky by nature - that's good enough for me!

Verdi wrote:Dick by name dicky by nature - that's good enough for me!

Ah pantomime season"Operation Grange" now given green light for foreseeable future!

So Cressida (remember Jean Charles da Silva e de Menezes) Dick was involved in the setting up of Operation Grange, was she? I’m surprised she hasn’t been created a Dame yet. It can only be a matter of time.

"Knight / Dame" is automatic for the commissioner, ever since Robert Mark, to stop the dreadful toadying and grovelling they all had to do.

Cmaryholmes wrote:So Cressida (remember Jean Charles da Silva e de Menezes) Dick was involved in the setting up of Operation Grange, was she? I’m surprised she hasn’t been created a Dame yet. It can only be a matter of time.

Oh only a matter of time before she becomes Dame Dick especially since her old mucker Terry May reportedly phoned and asked Dick, Head of the Met to apply for the job.

How long before Damian Green gets elevated to the "Dwinkies on the Taxpayer" place?  Another old Univeristy mucker of Terry May?

HO HO HO and several bottles of rum all around.   ha ha ha