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Uploaded on Sep 14, 2014 (Day 3):
Supt Fehon: “Today is Day 3 of the search for young William. We have continued with volunteers, emergency services, and we’ve had additional resources with the mounted police and also trail bike squad.
Our search has gone back to the original location where young William was last seen and we have retraced approximately one to one-and-a-half square kilometres, quite thoroughly over that last known area of where young William was seen last Friday.
We intend to continue this search. As time goes on, obviously, the survival diminishes and we still hold hope of young William being out there with the current conditions. We’ll continue with additional resources tomorrow. There’ll be resources coming from as far away as Sydney, and the search will continue over the coming days.”
Reporter: “Has there been any trace of William today?”
Supt Fehon: “We haven’t come up with anything at this stage. The search area, we are thoroughly going back over, and we’ll continue to do that to ensure that we’re not leaving anything unturned.”
Reporter: “What’s happening beyond the critical search on the ground in terms of the investigation (inaudible)…”
Supt Fehon: “With any situation like this we do have an investigative capability and that capability is conducting enquiries in regards to possible… any other aspects of where young William may be.”
Reporter: “Is there any indication that someone may have abducted him?”
Supt Fehon: “Look, we’re open in mind at this stage to anything, but we don’t have anything to indicate. At this stage we are still in a search mode, and we will continue to be in a search mode, but as time passes that window does diminish.”
Reporter: “Have police spoken to his sister about… (inaudible) the information (inaudible.)”
Supt Fehon: “I won’t comment in regards to talking to any family members.”
Reporter: “You said resources will come in from Sydney, what will they be tomorrow?”
Supt Fehon: “The Police (inaudible) Unit will be up here along with SES members, OSG capability.
We’ll continue with local police and we’ll maintain a very strong contingent out there searching over the coming days.”
Reporter: “Has there been any particular area that you’ve been going over painstakingly, and what type of areas are you looking?”
Supt Fehon: “We’re looking at the area near where young William was last seen, and we’ve gone back over predominantly the one to one-and-a-half kilometre radius around that property.”
Reporter: “Have you had police divers uncover anything in their search today?”
Supt Fehon: “Police divers have checked a number of waterways and dams, and unfortunately we are unable to come up with anything at this stage. They’ll continue searching until we have cleared all those waterways.”
Reporter: “Roughly how many people are involved in the search?”
Supt. Fehon: “We have over 200 people out there at present. That’s community members, SES, Rural Fire Service and Surf Life Saving. As I say, we’ll be providing relief teams to those searchers who have been out here for the last three days, and we’ll continue not only with our search but also our canvas of the area.”
Reporter: “Still looking at searching tonight?”
Supt Fehon: “Yes, there’s always a search capability. We’re running this as a 24 hour operation. As you’d understand, in darkness, we do have to limit some of those search areas… but there’ll be vehicles and people out there still maintaining a search capability."
Reporter: “Paul, you know the area well. Are you surprised that you haven’t found William by now?”
Supt. Fehon: “After 3 days looking for a young person, I think it’s fair to say we would have liked to have located something at this stage, but we are committed and we will continue with that search.”
