Paul Papalia says ‘hard police grind’ was behind the rescue of the missing four-year-old – not a ‘random tip or a clairvoyant’. Cleo Smith vanished on 16 October from a campsite at the Blowholes where she was staying with her family. Western Australia’s police minister says more than 140 officers were involved in the search for her, sifting through ‘all manner of information’, while analysts in Perth played a key role. The minister adds that Cleo’s rescue has ‘filled everyone with euphoria’
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