'Focused' search for William Tyrrell looking for 'disturbed ground' - 9News

Hundreds of police and dozens of Rural Fire Service volunteers are resuming a new search for William Tyrrell on the New South Wales Mid North Coast.

The search is expected to take several weeks after police announced the establishment of Task Force Rosann yesterday.

Investigators returned to the property where William, then aged three, disappeared in 2014.

William Tyrrell, photographed on the morning of his disappearance in 2014. (NSW Department of Justice)

NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller told 2GB: "I'm confident that the team who has the investigation at the moment can solve it."

NSW Police Minister David Elliott also said this morning he had confidence in the investigators.

"Police wouldn't be deploying these resources, wouldn't be putting this energy into a search of this magnitude, unless they were confident they would be able to get at least some extra information relating to the disappearance of William," he told Today.

He said police and Rural Fire Service volunteers were expected to be deployed in the search for two to three weeks.

"We've got an an excellent Rural Fire Service here in NSW," Mr Elliott said.

"They are experts in managing the ground, in identifying any soil that may have been moved, in any ground that's been disturbed, and that's what they are looking out for."

Nine Crime Editor Simon Bouda said it was a "very focused search".

"What we saw yesterday was a lot of preparation on bushland here on the road on Batar Creek Road Kendall on the corner of Cobb And Co Road," he said.

"This is an area that has now become the centre of attention. There are three locations here that are of significant interest to the police."

Police will search three locations in the coming weeks in the Kendall area. (9News)

Bouda told Today that among the investigators were specialists including an archeologist and a specialist in human remains.

"The sad part about this is, we're not looking for a little boy who's missing, but a little boy who's died," he said.

Detective Chief Superintendent Darren Bennett from NSW Police yesterday refused to reveal if there had been a tip-off or a human source was involved in the decision to launch the new operation.

But he underlined the search would focus on new areas, go underground, involve "specialist assistance" and new technologies.

"It's highly likely that we, if we found something, it would be a body," he said.

"We are looking for the remains of William Tyrrell, no doubt about that."

Chief Superintendent Bennett said the search was being guided by "the holistic nature of a number of pieces of evidence ... and we think it provides us with the best chance of finding him".

Without a trace: Unsolved cases of Australian missing children

William, at the time aged three, disappeared from his foster grandmother's property on Benaroon Drive in Kendall at about 10.30am on September 12, 2014.

Despite a massive search for William, who would have turned 10 in June, and the investigation continuing over several phases, the little boy has never been found.

Over the years, police have put pressure on several suspects who have since been ruled out.

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