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McCann - Bernard Hogan-Howe Radio 5Live Feb 20 2014

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Channel: HiDeHo4 · 2014 · News & Politics

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BBC 5Live Transcript:

Christine from Cardiff: Good Morning Sir Bernard, I'd like to ask you on the progress of Operation Grange

Sir Bernard Hogan Howe [BHH]: Right. We have lots of operations so you're going to have to...

Christine in Cardiff: Operation Grange 

BHH or NC (not certain): Which is?

Christine in Cardiff: It's the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

BHH: Ah, right, thank you for helping but we do have a lot of operations in London, so I'm sorry if I didn't recognise it immediately

Nicky Campbell [NC]: The Portuguese police really messed up didn't they?

Christine in Cardiff: (indistinct) Yeah

BHH: Erm, I'm not going to respond to Nicky's comment, let me just help. Where we are at the moment; we've sent three letters of request for international assistance to the Portuguese Judiciary, because that's the way their system works, and also with the police, we are working closely with them. Obviously the Portuguese police have got a line of inquiry which is different to the Metropolitan police' but we're working together to try and resolve that. We're trying our best to keep the family informed and I think in the middle of all this, quite often, their torment gets lost. Have they lost a child or, erm, by being murdered or, sadly, or have they lost a child by someone else stealing them. Either way they've got that terrible uncertainty so we're all trying our best to help resolve that.

NC: Do you have suspects?

BHH: We've actually said very clearly that we've got lines of inquiry that are different to the Portuguese police and we're working with them to try and resolve that and we're only going to... And, you know, that comment you made at the beginning about what they did or didn't do. We've got to work together on this, and I don't mean that as a naïve thing. I just think generally - we've generally got to work together. We can't police Portugal, they can't do everything over here. We must work together. So we're insist... you know, we really can work in genuine partnership on this. We're making some progress. Let's see how it comes over the next few months.

NC: If you'd been involved at the outset, do you think we might have got further with this investigation?

BHH: I think that's a bit unfair... That would be unfair. I mean, there's been inquiries in the UK where we know the police could have done better. I think to be too judgemental in these cases is wrong and I wasn't there and I'm not going to judge them. The main thing we're all committed to is trying to find that little girl

NC: And you have lines of inquiry, you have suspects, lines of inquiry, you have names?

BHH: That's right

NC: Erm, I appreciate why you can't, at this stage, go any further, and have you spoken to those people?

BHH: I'm not going to go any further really because, that's what you just said..

NC: I'm sure when you're interviewing people in that little room you try and sneak one in like that Sir Bernard. I bet you have in your time.

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