====== British Police ======

Involved are  **[[leicestershire_police|Leicestershire Police]]**  and the  **[[metropolitan_police|Metropolitan Police]]**, where [[operation_grange|Operation Grange]] is situated. 

Both Police organisations were critcised because of some unuasual behaviour in and around the McCann-Case. See links for further informations.

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->[[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-490254/McCanns-hiding-big-secret-police-chief-claims.html|Daily Mail]] (**28-Oct.-2007**) __McCanns 'are hiding a big secret', former police chief claims__: "Kate and Gerry McCann are hiding a "big secret" about the disappearance of their daughter [[madeleine_beth_mccann|Madeleine]], according a former police chief claims. **John Stalker**, who headed a famous inquiry into whether suspected IRA men were killed by RUC officers, is suspicious of their silence. The former **Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police** told the Sunday Express: 
//“My gut instinct is that **some big secret is probably being covered up**.
I have watched the investigation into the Madeleine McCann case drag out for six months.
One thing above all worries me: Why have the McCanns and the seven other members of their group – the Tapas Nine – remained so silent?
Unlike other high-profile cases I have worked on, not one of them has been prepared to break ranks or really come out and support each other.
After all this time and pressure, I cannot believe that nobody wants to speak. I have a real suspicion that we are not being told the whole truth. **There is something else there**, some issue that members of the party are embarrassed about”// "

->[[http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/259644/Madeleine-McCann-Key-files-into-probe-kept-top-secret-to-avoid-Portugal-row|Daily Star]] (**01-July.-2012**), __Madeleine McCann: Key files into probe kept top secret to avoid Portugal row__:
"CRUCIAL files relating to Madeleine McCann’s disappearance are being kept secret by the Government to avoid a diplomatic war with Portugal - They contain discussions between [[involvement_of_politics|Home Office]] ­officials and the [[metropolitan_police|Met]] over ­vital information on the case. But **Home Secretary Theresa May** and her staff have spent the past nine months **preventing the Daily Star Sunday from obtaining the papers**.
They said there would be //“specific detriment to the UK’s relationship with Portugal”// if the four files were released. Ms May also claimed disclosure of three of the documents would //“stifle discussion”// ­between ­officials.
But we understand the papers may show a **difference of opinion between the Home Office and Met officers**, who are [[operation_grange|reviewing the files]] on Madeleine’s 2007 disappearance in Praia da Luz.
The Met review was ordered last year after pressure from the Home Office and [[david_cameron|David Cameron]].
...Our first **request for the documents [FoIA] was made last September but the Home ­Office turned us down**. We appealed but again the Home Office decided ­**secrecy was more important**.
Last week, after more than five months’ deliberation, the Information ­Commissioner ruled in the Home Office’s favour but ­informed us we can now ­appeal to an Information Tribunal.
Its response said: //“The documents contained ­information provided to the UK in ­confidence by ­Portuguese officials and ­internal discussions ­between the Home Office and the ­Metropolitan Police ­Service of such ­information.”//..."


->[[http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/madeleine-mccann-uk-cops-slammed-3806229|Irish Mirror]] (**03-July-2014**), __Madeleine McCann UK cops slammed by Portuguese politician for //"using and abusing"// his officers__:"Former **Portuguese Home Secretary Rui Pereira** claimed Portuguese authorities have been ‘subservient’ to the UK...The article in Portuguese daily newspaper Correio da Manha by the former minister, who is now a university lecturer, followed claims by a source close to the investigation that this week’s four day operation in Faro had failed to produce a new lead. The source said: //“We’re back where we were seven years ago.”// All four men who were interviewed this week are being treated as //“persons of special interest”// or arguidos. They were invited to be interviewed but there have been no arrests...."

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