<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>One of the nation's most high-profile former detectives says he's confident </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/south-australia" rel="" target="" title="South Australian"><span>South Australian</span></a><span> police won't lose hope in the </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/rescue" rel="" target="" title="search"><span>search</span></a><span> for four-year-old Gus Lamont.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Authorities have been conducting extensive searches of the remote area around Yunta, in the state's Mid North, focusing on the possibility that the child wandered off.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Gary Jubelin, a former detective who led the investigation into the 2014 </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/missing-persons" rel="" target="" title="disappearance"><span>disappearance</span></a><span> of William Tyrrell in </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/new-south-wales" rel="" target="" title="NSW"><span>NSW</span></a><span>, has offered his take on Gus's disappearance.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/finance/interest-rates-australia-anz-reduces-saving-rate-no-rba-movement/2f208630-b0aa-47cf-a74b-ed5bad025322"><strong><span>Big four bank takes knife to savings rates despite no RBA cut in months</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"A three- or four-year-old child, you can't turn your back on them, so it's rare they disappear like this," he said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"90 per cent of times the child is found, it's these rare situations where there are no answers and that creates a mystery," he added.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>South Australian police are exploring all avenues in the young boy's disappearance.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/william-tyrrell-detective-gus-lamont-search/a73f3dc7-6839-4d87-aab6-0ca9b73cabe0" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The environment would play a big part in how the police are approaching this," Jubelin said, adding that "it's very hard to move onto the criminal investigation side of it unless you've exhausted the possibility that the child has just wandered off".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>While the search continues, Jubelin said investigators may be withholding some information from the public.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/samsung-phones-not-connecting-triple-zero-network-telstra-vodafone/c52e932e-a826-4332-84e2-36d16ac65037"><strong><span>Warning some Samsung phone models may fail to connect to triple zero</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span></span></strong><span>"Police might be aware of stuff that they are not speaking to the public about, which is understandable," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There are certain things that they [have] got to withhold."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Major crime detectives are maintaining close contact with Gus Lamont's family as the investigation progresses, with police refusing to give up hope of finding the four-year-old. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I'm sure the police working on this case wake up every day and say 'I'm going to solve this case, we will solve this case'," Jubelin said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's not a case you [can] just walk away [from] and say 'we don't know what happened'."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>This article was produced with the assistance of</span></em><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/technology/9express/16480c33-636a-461f-9c4f-d0e2522c722a"><em><span>9ExPress</span></em></a><em><span>.</span></em></div></div>