Detectives

The police would have then had contact with detectives and forensic scientist within the Madeleine McCann case. This would be to pass on evidence to the forensic scientist for analysis and to contact detectives who may want to investigate further and to also help the police with their part of the investigation.

Detectives in the Madeleine McCann case were also important individuals in reviewing the case as a whole including the evidence collected by the police. The detectives can also be involved in the collection of evidence and will work in partnership with the police and the forensics scientist to recover as much information and information of the crime as possible.

The detective will keep a chain of custody for that evidence or use the chain of custody provided by the police.

Because the detective can work along side the police, this means that they may have the role to collect, preserve and secure evidence correctly.

In the Madeleine McCann case, the evidence collected by the detectives and the police were tagged and packaged correctly to prevent contamination.

These detectives worked with the police to try and build a case on any suspects of the Madeleine McCann case. These detectives would have kept in contact with the police and forensics scientists on the case to keep up to date with any findings or new leads within the case.

But because the evidence that the police collected from the crime scene, the evidence did not lead to the police and detective building a case profile on a possible suspect because the evidence didn't point to an individual.