Haleigh Cummings - One Week Since Haleigh Went Missing Search is Scaled Back

New Approach In Search For Missing Haleigh

The organization at the search command center for a missing Florida girl boasts several different law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Putnam County Sheriff's officials sent about 50 officers Monday to a wooded area that had not previously been searched after receiving a tip on the disappearance of 5 year old Haleigh Cummings, of Satsuma. Cummings was last seen before she was put to bed on the night of Monday, February 9.
Authorities say that they are nowhere near ready to stop the search, but they are changing the way they will proceed.
The FDLE calls it more of a "tactical approach" now.
"Instead of just a full out search of the entire area, now we want to say, 'okay, we've been there, is there a reason to be there?," said Dominic Pate with the FDLE.
He added that investigators will only search specific areas in response to specific leads and tips. There will no longer be daily, full-scale searches.
"We will search in this country and out of the country as long as there's a reason to do so," said Pate.
Investigators along with volunteers from Texas-based search group Equusearch have combed a more than 5-mile radius around Haleigh's father's home, the home where Haleigh was last seen.
Because Tim Miller, the founder of Equusearch, also believes little Haleigh is not in the area, he and his group packed up and departed on Monday.
"The hardest thing is calling it quits, leaving and then always second-guessing yourself," Miller said at a news conference. Miller searched for the better part of four days for the missing girl.
And it's hard too for those who love and miss the 5-year-old.
At a prayer vigil on Monday night, community members expressed concern that scaling back means giving up.