BEST EFFORT: Senior Sergeant Cliff Metcalfe, officer in charge of Police Search and Rescue, organising the first day of another search for Leeann Scott at Taipa last week.
Mick Corden was hopeful but not overly optimistic last week that a three-day search for his partner, 49-year-old Leeann Scott, would reveal what had become of her. And he was right not to allow his hopes to get too high.
Police Search and Rescue officers from Whangarei, four police cadaver
dogs and Land Search and Rescue volunteers spent almost three days scouring the western end of Doubtless Bay and Rangaunu Harbour, without result.
The officer in charge of Police Search and Rescue, Senior Sergeant Cliff Metcalfe, told the searchers at Taipa on Tuesday morning that every inch of the search area had to be covered, "to the best of our ability".
"We will keep going until we've got it done," he said.
By the time the search ended on Thursday no one had any more answers than they have had since Ms Scott was last seen at Taipa, just a short distance from her home at Cable Bay, on December 12, however.
