An area of wasteland was cordoned off by police as forensics officers and dogs searched the area.
A number of Merseyside Police vehicles arrived at Colwell Road in Knotty Ash on Monday afternoon (March 6). One police matrix van, a matrix vehicle, three patrol cars, a dog unit, and a forensics van was on the road as police put a cordon in place surrounding a large section of grass and woodland.
Three forensics officers were seen entering the woodland, close to Princess Drive, and collecting a number of items in evidence bags. The officers in white forensic suits were then seen placing evidence bags back into their van before heading to Police HQ on Cazneau Street.
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Soon after an officer and police dog started searching the field. Merseyside Police has said this search is part of a "routine pre-planned community reassurance".
A spokesperson from Merseyside Police said: "Officers have today, Monday 6 March, been conducting a search of wast land off Colwell Road in West Derby. This forms part of a routine pre-planned community reassurance and preventive policing operation which is carried out throughout the year in Merseyside.
"It anticipated that the search will take a number of days to complete."
One man, who asked not to be named said he saw police arrive on the road in the afternoon with the presence increasing into the evening.
He told The ECHO: "They were here in the afternoon, I went to the shop and came back and then forensics were here and you can see them with bright lights through the trees up there. They're searching or have found something."
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