Police in search for missing 5 year old

[Grenoble]

Possible that they know the focused area, and they only want trained officers searching to preserve the scene/evidence?

[Frik]

anonymous said:

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Or the child witnesses saw her getting in the RHS of a boxy vehicle and he happens to have a LHD Disco so he must have dun it!

[hippy82]

Rollcage said:

jmorgan said:

Could be a number of reasons. One of them is the public are not generally trained in this and may get in the way and may need rescuing.

Something in their attitude towards the public searching has changed though - they were all for it yesterday.

As part of a Search and Rescue team i'm surprised the police let this happen for so long. We only go out when the police are sure we have full radio comms, full equipment, good leadership from a control unit and ground command, and of course the mandatory training.

Sending untrained and unequipped public out on searches is dangerous, and takes around 5 times the amount of people due to lack of search techniques.

[Twincam16]

Puggit said:

Rollcage said:

jmorgan said:

Could be a number of reasons. One of them is the public are not generally trained in this and may get in the way and may need rescuing.

Something in their attitude towards the public searching has changed though - they were all for it yesterday.

It would suggest they are not clueless about the girl's whereabouts.

Exactly - it could just as readily point to her being in someone's house, and you don't generally get the public to search strangers' houses door-to-door. Maybe the man who's 'helping them with their enquiries' has somehow established that she was specifically taken to somewhere.

[Puggit]

Something I haven't seen mentioned in the thread is that apparently 12 miles of the A487, north out of Machynlleth is closed.

[jmorgan]

hippy82 said:

Rollcage said:

jmorgan said:

Could be a number of reasons. One of them is the public are not generally trained in this and may get in the way and may need rescuing.

Something in their attitude towards the public searching has changed though - they were all for it yesterday.

As part of a Search and Rescue team i'm surprised the police let this happen for so long. We only go out when the police are sure we have full radio comms, full equipment, good leadership from a control unit and ground command, and of course the mandatory training.

Sending untrained and unequipped public out on searches is dangerous, and takes around 5 times the amount of people due to lack of search techniques.

Probably hard to turn people away on the day when feelings are running high the the people turning out are saying they are going for it. It is a bit different between a summer meadow and somewhere in mid Wales in bad weather.

Time will tell.

[jamescodriver]

Sky News say Police have called an unexpected Press Conference at 10am

http://news.sky.com/story/992482/live-updates-sear...

[Twincam16]

jamescodriver said:

Sky News say Police have called an unexpected Press Conference at 10am

http://news.sky.com/story/992482/live-updates-sear...

This could go either way. Either they've found her, or they've found a body. I sincerely hope it's the former.

[Twincam16]

Puggit said:

Something I haven't seen mentioned in the thread is that apparently 12 miles of the A487, north out of Machynlleth is closed.

That's up by the Pantperthog rally stages.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Police are saying they have some new information they need help with, don't think they've found her yet.

[Puggit]

Sky said:

Police will reveal "new evidence" about the search for missing schoolgirl April Jones at a news conference to be held at 10am.

[gtdc]

IF the chap they have in custody is the chap who took her, given he's been arrested and isn't going to be getting back to his prize, it would take a very warped human to continue to not give her up.

Very much hope he's stashed her in a building somewhere and they find her alive.

[P-Jay]

Hope so too, but I fear the worst.

If they think the guy they have is the one that lifted her beyond reasonable doubt and there's a chance she's still alive they can waterboard him as far as I'm concerned.

[SplatSpeed]

P-Jay said:

Hope so too, but I fear the worst.

If they think the guy they have is the one that lifted her beyond reasonable doubt and there's a chance she's still alive they can waterboard him as far as I'm concerned.

take to long to get him extradited to guantanamo,
look at abu hamza

[Dan_1981]

Extraordinary rendition flight to Anglesey should sort that out.

[Derek Smith]

It is an unfortunate but the overwhelming probability is that she is dead. Those who abduct kids tend to do what it is they do then dump the body. The swollen river seems to be the most convenient means of disposal.

The fact that he's a friend of the family means that forensic evidence is limited.

[Puggit]

Dan_1981 said:

Extraordinary rendition flight to Anglesey should sort that out.

Wills in a helicopter?

[Rollcage]

Puggit said:

Wills in a helicopter?

Some chap on Twitter yesterday was saying that he'd heard rumours Wills was flying the S&R 'copter that was sent in!

[StottyZr]

What was said at the press conference?

[TobyLaRohne]

The guy they have is talking by the sound of it.
http://news.sky.com/story/992482/live-updates-sear...