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What is your response to that? >> if those people who are doing the criticism, if it was their child that was missing, would they say the same? they would wish that every other missing child case would get a similar level of resources. >> reporter: but by the fall of 2015, those resources were dropped significantly when scotland yard reduced its staffing from 30 officers down to just four. >> what has been done is just as important but on a tighter more managed scale. this sort of work takes time and, of course as time goes on, it gets harder, but it's not impossible. >> back home in england, ...

Gt on the case. >> they felt nobody was searching for madeleine. so they wanted someone to start looking for her. >> an awful lot of work was done. teams went to morocco, all over the mediterranean, various countries, following up leads, tipoffs. >> the little girl had a hat on, and she looked like madeleine mccann. >> i don't know where she could be. >> from reported sightings to psychic visions, he chased down dozens of possible leads. then his boss made this bold claim on television. >> we are 100% sure that she's alive. >> i know they kidnap her and we know who it is, and we know how he ha...

Prime minister cameron to open up a review of the case. >> i believe there' bits of information that haven't been linked up to each other that could be significant. >> and in the end, david cameron did respond within 24 hours of the mccann's open letter appearing in the press. he ized the metropolitan police to undertake a review of the case. >> in 2011, scottland yard ordered a review. their task, to assume nothing and re-examine the case from the very beginning. >> operation grange was headed by detective chief inspector andy redwood, who had come from the homicide squad. we went to see him ...

>> reporter: and if that is the case, madeleine could still be out there. >> there is no evidence that she's dead so certainly from my point of view, somebody knows what's happened. >> okay. spin around, darling. >> reporter: there is someone who knows what happened to madeleine. %-p, there is still hope. >> are we going to enforce it today? >> never give up hope. never stop trying to find out what happened to your child. >> reporter: the last time kate and jerry mccann saw their daughter madeleine was just days before her 4th birthday, today she would be nearly 14-years-old. while most expert...

The scene. so in the early days, were authorities actually looking for a kidnapper? >> no, no. i don't think it occurred to anybody. >> but it had occurred to the mccanns. >> i knew my child had been taken. it's quite hard to get somebody else to believe that. >> on the very night madeleine disappeared, kate and gerry mccann and their friends started trying to reach out to the press. they are well educated, middle class people with lots of friends and contacts. >> just hours after madeleine's disappearance, her image was broadcast and e-mailed around the world. >> she was arguably the first mi...