No more money for missing children?

[the truth]

Today we heard the police say they'll have to cut back investigations on seeking missing children ....100,00s go missing every year and the budget is only £30 million a year....the resources are extremely limited. it must be understood every time we spend police resources , it limits the help we can give others......UNLESS ITS THE MCCANNS OF COURSE.....? The search for madeline has cost the police £8 million so far.....The average search for missing kids costs £1325 PER PERSON..yet the madeleine case is different because???


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-33738908

"Time spent tracing missing teenagers is an "unsustainable" burden for police, one of the UK's most senior chief constables has warned.

Sir Peter Fahy, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), said other police work was compromised by thousands of calls better dealt with by social workers.

He said it cost the force £30m a year.

English, Scottish and Welsh police dealt with 306,000 missing people in 2012/13, according to the latest UK Missing Persons Bureau figures.

And each missing person call costs an average of £1,325, said researchers at Portsmouth University."


The mccanns search cost tax payers £8 million...dave Cameron in typically populist fashion to try and win the elections, set aside £5 million of that, yet reduces the overall budget for the other 306,000 missing people to £30 million...ONE RULE FOR THE ELITE, ANOTHER RULE FOR THE REST? PATHETIC

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2853911/Madeleine-McCann-investigation-cost-Home-Office-8million-launching-2007-2million-year-spent-hunt-missing-British-child.html

[GiRTh]

Seems fair. Cant provide resources for everything. :shrug:

[the truth]

Seems fair. Cant provide resources for everything. :shrug:

£8,000,000 spend for 1 child search
£1350 for every other child?

fair?

[GiRTh]

£8,000,000 spend for 1 child search
£1350 for every other child?

fair?No

[the truth]

glad you agree

[Mystic Mock]

I blame Ted.

[empire]

what makes me mad, is that if the mccanns, weren't doctors, and lived on a council estate, they would of had the rest of there children taken away from them, for leaving them alone in there hotel room, and going out on the piss, 8 million was wasted, on finding this person, and a boy in greece went missing in the 90s, and they are from a working class family, and they never got help from the government,

[jennyjuniper]

As a taxpayer, I would rather see money spent on trying to find missing children, than spend it on sorting out idiots who have drunk too much and get aggressive. Let those numptys kill each other for all I care, but missing kids should be a priority.

[kirklancaster]

I agree totally Jenny, but in addition, if we weren't being compelled by Brussels to pay 12.7 Billion PA in 'Foreign Aid' we might be able to increase the paltry budget for finding our missing kids. :shrug:

The overseas aid budget will increase by an extra £1 billion over the next two years under new European Union rules, it has emerged.

Government figures released on Thursday reportedly show that Britain met last year's aid spending target of 0.7 per cent of GDP, totalling £11.7 billion.

The UK already spends more than any other country on international agencies and is the second largest aid donor in the world.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11513825/Aid-budget-to-increase-by-1-billion.html

[Ammi]

what makes me mad, is that if the mccanns, weren't doctors, and lived on a council estate, they would of had the rest of there children taken away from them, for leaving them alone in there hotel room, and going out on the piss, 8 million was wasted, on finding this person, and a boy in greece went missing in the 90s, and they are from a working class family, and they never got help from the government,

....hmmm, I thought that I read quite recently of some current police enquiries with the Ben Needham disappearance ...

...anyways, I also think the children were too young to have been left alone ..(and don't the McCanns live with that every day of their lives..)...but could the social services get involved anyway with something that's happened overseas..?..that's a genuine question btw....but even if they could, they've lost one child already, what would taking their other children away achieve for any of them/the parents or the children...

[bots]

Just to be clear as the thread is quite misleading, the police chief is not suggesting that the searches/investigations do not continue, he is suggesting that the work would be better carried out by other agencies. Quite a big difference.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I think the majority of the missing teens are those that go awol from carehomes are they not )(and do it multiple times)

Its not the same as a small child stolen from a bed abroad by a paedophile

[smudgie]

I agree with him.
Cut back on the money spent on teens running away from care homes, stop calling them missing children, hand the case over to the social services to sort out.
One girl ran away from her care home 57 timed, 48 of them within the last 6 months, cost to taxpayer over £70,000.
She wants to be with her mother...hardly a police matter.

[Livia]

Before this turns into another McCanns-Bashing Session, may I point out... Five - FIVE - police forces are now investigating historic sex abuse cases against a dead man, cases that go back decades. Maybe some of that cash could be diverted to cases that are actually happening today. Sadly though, that doesn't sell as many newspapers.

I'm hardly surprised that teenagers run away from care homes. They hardly have a shining record of taking care of these kids, do they.

[the truth]

Before this turns into another McCanns-Bashing Session, may I point out... Five - FIVE - police forces are now investigating historic sex abuse cases against a dead man, cases that go back decades. Maybe some of that cash could be diverted to cases that are actually happening today. Sadly though, that doesn't sell as many newspapers.

I'm hardly surprised that teenagers run away from care homes. They hardly have a shining record of taking care of these kids, do they.

words of wisdom indeed.....were spending more money on criminalising dead people than we are on protecting our children from abuses and abduction TODAY...this is where we end up with populist politicians and prime ministers who get their short term policies from the tabloids