WA acting commissioner Col Blanch said police body-worn cameras captured the moment detectives found and embraced the little girl.
“You wouldn’t see too many tears from commissioners these days,” Mr Dawson’s counterpart in NSW,Mick Fuller,said.
WA Police found missing four-year-old Cleo Smith in a locked house in the West Australian town of Carnarvon after an 18-day search of the state’s north-west coast.
Superintendent Rod Wilde said police were trying to understand how Cleo could have been taken from the family’s tent without anyone realising until the morning.
The worst thing is that police sometimes take them seriously.
Roadside bins from a distance stretching some 600 kilometres along the coastline where Cleo Smith went missing have been scoured by police.
Nearly two weeks since four-year-old Cleo Smith went missing and police say they have plenty of leads to follow up despite having no luck in identifying a car seen near the remote campsite she disappeared from.
The AFP,which has joined the search for missing girl Cleo Smith,has access to high-resolution satellite imagery which could help solve the mystery of who took the four-year-old from a remote campsite in WA’s north.
WA Police Superintendent Rod Wilde,who is in charge of the 100 officers making up Taskforce RODIA,has met with the parents of missing four-year-old Cleo Smith in Carnarvon and says he is hopeful and confident of finding out what happened to her.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison revealed the agency’s involvement in the suspected abduction case,saying he hoped the AFP’s “very advanced capabilities” would help the investigation.
Ellie Smith said she would never wish for anyone to wake up and feel the “feeling that went through her” when she realised her daughter was gone.