Competition between British police forces hindered the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and have had a long-term negative effect on the case, according to the author of an unpublished British Home Office report.

Competition between British police forces hindered the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and have had a long-term negative effect on the case, according to the author of an unpublished Home Office report.

Police chiefs in the North were criticised today after confirming that one of their officers has been sent to Tripoli to help train Libyan police.