The Consultants

Consultants were also involved in the Madeleine McCann case. These were 5 individuals from different job roles who wanted to have their take on the investigation. So this team of consultants would be aware of the evidence the police and detectives obtained that were analysed by the forensic team. This would be so the consultants know what that evidence could have suggested and any leads that the analysis of that evidence led to. This led them to travel to the sight of where Madeleine went missing and wanting to put all the evidence and witnesses accounts together to see if the police or detectives had missed anything out or to see if they could come up with any new theories or ideas of what could have happened to her and have reliable reasons for that. The team looked at the theories the police and detectives came up with, and singled out which one was not as likely using the evidence gained to back it up.

It is important for different parties of an investigation to work together throughout the investigation process. This is because they all have one aim which is to solve the case, but they do this by having different individual roles. From the Madeleine McCann case, we can see that the different members of the investigation team worked together in the various stages.

An example of this would be the witness statements, these would be taken by the police or detectives who then would be processed by them or another party of the team to gather as much information and details from those witness statement. Then if there is information that would serve as being relevant to the case, it would be reported back to the police and detectives to make further enquiries about if there was a sighting in a witness statement and who was witnessed in that statement.

This analysis can then be passed onto consultants or private detectives who may want to dig deeper in the investigation.

If the different members of the investigation team did not work together then different job roles within the investigation will not be able to be carried out. If the police did not work with the forensic team: who would analyse the evidence? If the forensic team found a lead from the evidence: who would follow this lead through?

The different roles all link together in the various stages of the investigation.