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Oh gawd, sorry, my excuse is I'd just got up. Doh!
Honestly sqad, I am NOT suggesting our police are infallible, we all know they're not. But if they don't take on Maddie's case and follow up the leads they say they have found, then who will?
Did you read the criticism of the PP at the time, admittedly in the English press. Copied from Wiki:
Criticism of the police
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There was extensive criticism of the Portuguese police in the British media. The first police officers to arrive acted as if Madeleine had wandered off, which resulted in a failure to secure the crime scene. Madeleine's favourite toy, Cuddle Cat, was with her in bed on the night she disappeared, and was found still on the bed after she disappeared, but police failed to secure it or check for DNA the abductor might have left on it.[95] Neither border nor marine police were given descriptions of Madeleine for many hours after she vanished, and officers did not appear to have made extensive door-to-door inquiries.[96] The police failed to ask for surveillance pictures of vehicles leaving Praia da Luz at the time of the disappearance, or of the road between Lagos and Vila Real de Santo António on the Spanish border.[97] Another mistake was misreporting the height of the man Jane Tanner and the Irish family saw carrying a child on the night of the disappearance. This was given in a Portuguese press release as 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m), but mistakenly appeared in the English version as 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m).[38]