DETECTIVES investigating the disappearance of Alice Gross have thanked the public for their overwhelming help and support.

More than 630 calls have been made to the team since Alice was last seen on August 28, and additional officers have been drawn in from across the Met to handle the calls.

The search has now reached 24 days. Specialist search officers, police dogs and divers have all been mobilised.

Police have so far targeted open spaces, waterways and disused buildings around the route that Alice was known to have taken on the day she was last seen.

This is the largest deployment mobilised by the Met for an ongoing investigation since the 7/7 bombings.

To date, the search has involved 600 officers from eight forces. They have searched open land, canals and rivers and are now widening the search area.

Hundreds of hours of CCTV have been viewed.

Det Supt Carl Mehta, said: "I would like to thank the local community who have shown great support to the search effort and police investigation so far.

“Our officers are working through the weekend, carrying on those searches. We will not stop our hunt for Alice.

"While we have already seized many hundreds of hours of CCTV, we still need the public's help.

“If you are a shop owner, have CCTV at your home, or were out filming in the areas of Ealing and Hanwell and have footage from the afternoon of Thursday, August 28, when Alice was last seen, and right up to September 3 when Arnis Zalkalns was last seen, then please get in touch with us.

“Save the footage, call into our incident room on 020 8358 0100, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."