 Declan's mother has said today that the way Declan had put away his school bag and his clothing was unusual and seemed to her to indicate that he may have gone somewhere rather than leaving the house suddenly. Does that help your investigation at all? It's certainly a changed behaviour from what was the norm. We haven't really established whether that is linked to his disappearance or how that fits in. I guess that unless we get the opportunity to speak to Declan that may be difficult for us to determine how or why that occurred, that his clothes were put away in that manner. How does the investigation go as time goes on? Does it make it harder for you to actually find it? We have a significant number of tasks for our detectives to follow up on. But as time goes on, I guess the main thing is to keep people on the lookout for Declan, keep his name out there. I know mum is talking to the media, there's posters everywhere. Most people we talk to have heard of Declan or know of Declan being missing. So that being out there gives us certainly more information coming in. Are there any more searches planned for the rest of the week? No, not at this stage. I think to date also we've had about 130 sightings of Declan, but that's not confined to a small area there over a broad area all around Australia. Are they being investigated? We follow up on every sighting and try and verify as best we can whether it was in fact Declan and to date none of those checks have located any. Are all of those I guess honest, mistaken, signing? I don't think anyone's been trying to make it difficult for us. I mean people see young boys who they believe may look like Declan. Most of the sightings are by people who don't know him so they can't confidently say it is or isn't Declan. So that's why we have to conduct those inquiries around the sightings. His mum said he was talking a lot about travel and was very bored at school and just wanted to travel. There's no chance that he could have left the country, is there? That would be unlikely because I know mum has his passport. What new do you want to say to the public? It's three weeks on I guess people are starting to get on with their lives and think less about Declan. What would you say to them? We're just I guess appealing to the public especially some of the younger people out there who know Declan have had spending time with him to help us build up that last week before we left because he may have said something to someone that may seem an innocuous comment but in the context of all the other information we're gathering that may be the piece of information we need that may lead us in a specific direction to locate him. How are you working with his school in this investigation? The schools have been very helpful in providing information, contact details for his friends, identifying who his friends are and also access for an investigator to any of the school records or even access at times to speak to some of the students. Declan's mother Ruth obviously doesn't want to be asked this particular question but how are they feeling? Do they have any hope at all that he's still alive? I know I spoke to mum just today and she is very hopeful that he's obviously that he's still alive and still out there and believes that that he is still out there and maybe getting assistance from someone. You know we have said all along that you know we're looking at a range of things that may have happened to Declan and I know that the parents are aware of that but at this stage all their thoughts are that Declan has chosen to to leave home and is still out there and they're hopeful that he comes back home. If you believe he's either with someone, how helpful has his friends been towards you? Have they been withholding information do you think? We don't believe that any of his close friends are withholding any information and in fact many of them are as curious as we are as to where he may be. Is there an element of fear here among the kids? Are you worried that there is certainly information that they know information they're not telling you? We can never be certain but I know that most of his close friends now I guess initially they may have thought that you know he's just somewhere local in the area and maybe you know not wanting to come home for some reason but I know a lot of the children we're talking to now or people I guess concerned that we don't know where he is I think they believe that by now we'd be home so but they've certainly been very helpful in providing as much information as they know to assist us in locating him. And what about his biological father as he sort of had any leads or anything like that as to where Declan could be? No, not that I'm aware of. We've had some reports of shopkeepers saying that their kids going around town thinking it's funny to dress like Declan and pretend to be Declan. Is that something that's annoying you and hearing the investigation? It's not something that's been prevalent that we've you know had people get out there knowingly sort of stating their names Declan or that they're the missing person. I'm aware of one instance which occurred locally and those people were spoken to fairly shortly after. So we don't have any real concerns that that's happening. How extensive have your water searchers been? I know there's a creek and the ones in the ocean. Yeah we've had our search and rescue people along with SES do all the banks of the Barron River, Tomatoes Creek, Redden Creek, all the areas around Declan's home. So we're pretty confident that you know the searches we've conducted have been very extensive. Have you got any crocodile traps out there in those areas? Not that I'm aware of. If you've spoken in the past about Facebook being something you've looked at are there any other websites that you've drawn your attention to? Nothing in particular. I mean we're looking through I guess any sites that Declan may have accessed just to see if there's any clues there whether he's registered on any site under a different address or different name. So they're inquiries we conduct and they're ongoing inquiries. Have those inquiries so far found anything and if not sorry when will you sort of finish up looking online? We're continuing to maintain I guess our inquiries online because if Declan is out there at any time he could get back online. So we have investigators continually assessing I guess online activities just in case we do come across something that may identify where he may be. That was mentioned I think about a week ago that he may have had more than one Facebook site. Is that odd? Not particularly. I'm not all that of a with Facebook but I don't believe it's difficult to start a new account. I'm aware that we've looked at a number of accounts but some of those are not accounts that are being used. Why would you set up another account? I just don't understand that. I think a lot of people at home don't understand that. I couldn't answer that. I guess that's something that only Declan could answer as to why. And all the teenagers swap and change their names around as well with each other on Facebook. Is that something else you could be looking at as well? I'm not sure exactly what you mean with that. Certainly any contacts that he's had on Facebook we're speaking to all of those. That's people to see if they have any information about where Declan may be. And what resources do you have involved in the investigation as of today? I couldn't give you an exact head count but certainly we have our local detectives and quite a number from Brisbane specialist units who are up here assisting as well. Is this moment just being hopeful and believing that he's alive? Do you believe he's alive? As we've said at the outset there are a number of things that could have happened. There may have been some misadventure where he's been injured. He may still be out there. At this stage we just don't have any particular evidence to identify I guess one way or the other. Do you still think it will be weeks that this investigation runs before all possibilities are exhausted? Well certainly we're prepared to carry on for an extensive period of time to run out all our enquiries and exhaust all of our options.