By Tom Parmenter, Sky Correspondent
The search for missing teenager Alice Gross is now the biggest deployment of Metropolitan Police search assets since the 7/7 terror attacks in London.
The 14-year-old from Hanwell, west London, has been missing for 24 days and police continue to make new appeals for information.
Detectives revealed this week they are also searching for Latvian national Arnis Zalkans, 41, who disappeared from his home in nearby Ealing on September 3 - a week after Alice disappeared.
The 41-year-old was jailed in his native country in the late 1990s for murdering his wife and burying her in a forest following a dispute about her sexuality.
It has also emerged Zalkalns was arrested in London on suspicion of indecent assault on a 14-year-old girl in 2009, but was never charged.
Search teams, including dogs and divers, have been deployed across west London looking for Alice, and police say the search area is being widened.
Police are also hunting for Arnis Zalkalns who disappeared at the same time Detective Superintendent 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. Whilst 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 28 August when Alice was last seen, and right up to the 3 September 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."
Some 630 officers from eight police forces have been involved in the hunt. They have searched 25sq km of open land and 5.5km of canals and rivers.
Former Met Police search adviser Keith Farquharson was involved in the operation after the 7/7 attacks.
He told Sky News: "There will be a whole team of officers following up leads, interviewing people, interviewing witnesses to glean that information that will lead to the actual whereabouts of Alice.
"That will be fed down to the search teams to give them a good idea and point them in the right direction."
Mr Farquharson explained that the police teams will continue to pursue new leads and will not be deterred by the length of time since Alice disappeared.
Zalkalns was seen on CCTV cycling along a path by the Grand Union Canal "Never say never - it will always depend on that one snippet of information that could lead to the breakthrough in the case."
On Friday night, police searched a former home of Zalkalns in Hanwell.
The owner of the house, Radoslav Andric, said he last saw Zalkalns at the rental property two days before Alice went missing on August 28.
Mr Andric said the Latvian builder moved out more than a year ago, but had returned to see friends.
Police have recovered the suspect's red Trek bicycle from the property.
Forensic officers have also searched Zalkalns' semi-detached house in Ealing, where armed officers have been seen standing guard.
Zalkalns has not accessed his bank account or used his mobile phone since September 3, nor has he returned home to his partner and young child.
He was seen on CCTV footage cycling along a path by the Grand Union Canal 15 minutes after the last sighting of Alice.
Detectives believe he is likely to have seen Alice as they were both going north along the canal towpath.
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