UPDATE: Suspicious device located, Atherton

Police investigating a suspicious device located on an ATM at Atherton have revoked Public Safety Preservation Act declaration.

The suspect device has been identified as a personal communication and audio device left on the ATM by a customer.

All roads effected by the declaration have now been reopened to vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Original release issued January 23, 2017 at 12.08pm

Police are investigating the location of a suspicious device at Atherton.

At about 10am this morning, police received information of a suspicious device on an ATM in Main Street.

At 10.55am, police declared an emergency situation under the Public Safety Preservation Act 1986 and evacuated nearby businesses.

The declaration encompasses the area bordered by Main, Jack, Vernon and Mabel streets.

Vehicular and pedestrian traffic has been diverted.