 Okay, thanks for coming this afternoon. Some two weeks ago on the 9th of March this year, the young 13-year-old boy by the name of Declan Crouch went missing from the Meacham's beach area. There has been an intensive investigation with resources from State Crime Operations Command and the far northern region applied to the investigation in an effort to identify where Declan is and what's happened to him. It's important that the investigation and the ongoing process of trying to find him remains in the media. We thank you for your assistance in that regards. We're looking at this media release going nationally to give us every possibility of trying to locate his whereabouts. We are following up a number of leads at the moment and are particularly interested in anyone who had contact with Declan in the week leading up to his disappearance on the 9th of March. Those persons may have had some conversation with Declan that may give an indication with what we know now about why he has gone missing on the 9th. That conversation may mean nothing to you but may form part of the jigsaw that we're trying to put together. So we ask that you contact crime stoppers on the 1800 triple three triple zero number if you have had had some sort of contact with him or some sort of conversation with him up until the time that he has gone missing on the 9th. We're also following a number of pieces of information from the public and also canvassing a lot of areas in the Mechins Beach area with a view of talking to people who may have seen young Declan on the afternoon of the 9th. We do know from witnesses that he was last seen leaving the school bus and walking towards his house which was a short distance away. From that point on it's a bit of a mystery and we continue to follow leads from the public. I hope to take questions from that point onwards. Look as you know with any young children they talk to their mates and they may not talk the same sort of conversation or the con to that conversation could be totally different what they may talk to their parents about. So we're looking for any of these school mates or anyone that had contact with him that may have some information that means nothing to them but could be important to us. So we ask that you three of your parents if you're a schoolmate or friends make contact with crime stoppers in particular or the local police. Well we simply don't know there has been some speculation in the media and I think we have to be very careful about that. We're remaining open minded at this stage and we will commit resources to any piece of information that comes in and follow up any lead that we believe gives us an opportunity to locate where Declan is. We're considering every possibility at the moment as I said we'll remain open minded and we will continue to follow leads along the lines of any inquiry that we think is relevant. That is a piece of information that has been followed up and I'm not able to make any further comment at the moment. We have a number of police involved particular from the command we have members of the homicide squad missing persons unit, child safety, state flowing squad and the electronic examination unit who are currently examining the computer associated with young Declan as that's been previously reported upon. Look we simply don't know it's been two weeks obviously we have concerns in relation to his safety and welfare. We always remain optimistic in these investigations. We're working closely with the family and we are putting every effort possible into locating him safe and well. Oh look as always we remain open minded about these things. Kansas is a big place. Children as much as we want to believe sometimes being a father myself that they are at certain locations rest assured they'll be elsewhere. So we are very open minded about that as the senior management group associated with the investigation we are committed to being open minded and considering every possibility. We are monitoring every avenue associated with young Declan and it's fair to say that he hasn't been using those items that you've mentioned. Not that we're aware of there are obviously in any young child's life there are things that may upset different children. We're considering all those possibilities. We're working closely with the family and at the moment there's nothing which concerns us to believe that he would have a reason to leave the family. We are making inquiries with all people associated with Declan. At the moment we're following up a couple of leads we probably shouldn't say leads we're following up a couple of items of inquiry that have taken us outside the state and they are just generic inquiries at this stage with no specific reason. Well that's been speculated in the media and I think that's an exaggeration of the facts as they are known at this time. Clearly there is not one cylinder of evidence that suggests that this is in any way similar to the issues as we know in relation to Daniel Walker. Look I think the end of the day and my memory serves me right it's the only one of this nature since that time anyway. We treat all missing persons seriously in particular young children and we'll commit whatever resources it takes until they are located. Bearing in mind a lot of children the younger children are simply late home from school and parents are concerned and we activate in relation to those pieces of information being brought forward to the police and the kids turn up a little bit later so you know around the state around Australia that these issues are taken very seriously. Look I don't tend to go into the operational side of the investigation. Did you say Daniel or Declan? What was the question? No we haven't made any decision in relation to that at the moment. We're remaining very open minded about what may have happened and that ensures that we look widely and don't miss anything through bringing bias into the investigation. I can't give you the latest update on that. There has been some information coming from the public which has been followed up but obviously we're appealing today for people that may have had some contact with Declan prior to him going missing that may be of interest to us and as I said before it may be not relevant from your point of view but it may be that piece of the jigsaw that we're missing so anyone who had contact at Ring Crime Stoppers if you're a young child that's a friend of Declan's please let your parents know and have them ring Crime Stoppers. Yes we're continually resourcing the region and that's scalable. The full resources of this command are available if necessary and we sent Flying Squad members to Cairns. There will be further members of the Homicide Squad going up in the next 24 hours and they are going purely because of the specialist nature of investigating complex investigations of this nature. Well you have the regional detectives and you have the command's commitment bearing in mind we have a number of resources operating remotely. The technology today allows us to do that particularly in relation to computer examinations so from the command's commitment we've got approximately 15 to 20 working on it some of them remain in Brisbane and then you've got the Cairns commitment from the local CIB and CPIU. My understanding is that it has and obviously as new information comes in or further strategies are considered we're able to scale searches of that nature up and down. We've spoken to a number of witnesses and I won't go any further than that. Not to my knowledge. Not to my knowledge.