Personally I don't care how much it costs, it's a drop in the ocean for police budgets and money well worth spending, if one of my daughters disappeared I would hope for the same level of funding.
I think the McCanns have been treated horrifically, by parts of the UK media and public, why should we question how much it costs and what they were doing, they were not abusive or neglectful parents and I am sure they have regretted that night every day since it happened, I feel terribly sorry for them.
They were about 50 feet away from her and checking the room regularly, yet it's often painted as though they were miles away out on the piss without a care in the world.
I remember during the Leveson Inquiry, in his written evidence, Gerry McCann claimed that the Express was one of the first papers to turn against them, printing a groundless story that they may have sold Maddie to help pay off their mortgage. After numerous seemingly made up stories he said he phoned the editor and asked where they got these stories from and would he stop, he said he was told that the paper did not care if the stories were made up, and that Gerry McCann was free to sue as every time they put Maddie's face on the front page they sold thousands more copies, so even if a case was successful the paper would still come out ahead financially. The Express obviously denied this conversation had ever taken place, so make your own mind up.
The amount of people that blame those poor parents for their actions rather than the person that took her is horrendous, victim blaming at its very worst.