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Police searching for the missing two-year-old in west Auckland are reviewing their search method.
Ashling Symes went missing from outside her grandparents' house in Longburn Street in Henderson late on Monday afternoon.
After an extensive search by more than 100 police and volunteers police are confident the toddler is not in a five-kilometre radius of the house, but are asking the public to check their properties again.
Inspector Gary Davey says while police are confident Aisling is not within the area they have been searching, he is still calling for help from residents in that area.
The search review comes as police now give more weight to the possibility the little girl may have been abducted.
Davey says they will decide their next move after a senior sergeant from Northland who specialises in search and rescue reviews their search method.
Police are also interviewing known child sex offenders and profiling "suspicious people".
Police are also looking at recently reported suspicious behaviour in the area to identify possible abduction suspects.
"There have been some reports of suspicious activity but I'm not prepared at this stage to say that it is linked or could possibly be linked, but we'll be looking through all those."
Meanwhile, a private investigator says if Aisling has been abducted, it would have been an opportunistic crime.
Dan Thompson, a member of the Institute of Private Investigators, says the kidnapper would not have known the little girl would be playing alone at the time.
He says if this is an abduction, taking someone from the street is very rare occurrence in New Zealand.
Thompson says the majority of child abductions in this country are parental abduction where one parent or the other has custody of the child.
He says any normal person coming across Aisling would have informed police by now.
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