Police continue search for missing five-year-old girl April Jones in Wales Detective Superintendent Reg Bevan, from Dyfed Powys Police, told a media conference today that getting "vital" information from the children who witnessed April Jones getting into a van yesterday evening is a "delicate and time-consuming" task. April was last seen by another child getting into the driver's side of a grey van which drove off in the Mid Wales town of Machynlleth at about 7pm last night. Mr Bevan told reporters: "Clearly, it would be every family's worst nightmare to suffer a child going missing in these circumstances." He emphasised the difficulties of getting accurate information from the young children who were playing with April when she disappeared. "I am mindful that we are still in the process of speaking to these children," he said. That is delicate and time-consuming. We are trying to extract exactly what they have seen and we are very anxious to provide the most accurate information we can without misleading anyone in any way. The description so far of the van the youngster was seen getting into is a grey vehicle, small at the front and large at the back, Mr Bevan said. That could be interpreted as something small to a Ford Connect van, something like a Land Rover, and also that April got into the driver's side. That may well be that she got in with the driver, but of course that could mean that it's a left-hand drive vehicle. The colour has not changed, that's as we initially gave it - grey. He repeated earlier pleas for any information, no matter how small. Mr Bevan said the force would be combing through CCTV, both municipal and private, to find clues about the abduction of the five-year-old. Mr Bevan said they could not say for sure whether April was led to the vehicle or went there herself, but added: "The indications are that she got into the vehicle willingly." Asked if there were any signs that there was a struggle, he said: "It's very difficult to give an exact account of what happened. There's nothing to suggest at this stage that there was a struggle when she got into the car. He said they had a "very early" initial description of the suspect, but was not comfortable to release it at this stage. The force is concentrating searches and efforts in the immediate area, on the advice of experts, he said, and is also re-interviewing child witnesses, carrying out house-to-house inquiries, and searching CCTV. Mr Bevan said police were alerted last night, and it was "pretty soon after that" that the incident was being treated as an abduction. He said April was with friends yesterday evening, "some of whom left earlier and there's certainly one individual that was with her when the abduction took place." He said the children were providing police with "vital information." "She was last seen just around 7pm when she got into the vehicle I have described," he said. "I am unable to be specific on exactly the circumstances because obviously what we have got is the initial account from a child witness but the indications are that she got into the vehicle willingly," Mr Bevan said. Asked what the next step in the investigation would be, Mr Bevan said: "Obviously we have got to re-interview the child witnesses, we have got a number of people who live in the area, the traditional house to house inquiries. As has been mentioned in my previous statement, obviously we have got CCTV both municipal and private. We have got a number of cameras that cover road networks so we are pursuing all the obvious lines of inquiry. Mr Bevan said staff were already recovering CCTV. Obviously if somebody has any footage that they feel may be of assistance, if it matches the description of the vehicle I have given, if it is of any movements in or around that time, 7pm last night, then we would be anxious for people to come forward. He added: "We have had a significant number of pieces of information, members of the public approaching us, as you are well aware, we have got media, Twitter, there is a Twitter account. We have got a number of means of gathering information and a dedicated line with assistance from other forces to manage the call-handling. We are sifting through that. Mr Bevan went on: "We have been very reassured by the response from the local community - that is a difficult task co-ordinating people anxious to help and we are very, very grateful for that help," he said. But what we have got to try to do is ensure that is co-ordinated and it is focused in a structured manner and that we are utilising the assistance of the public... in a co-ordinated way that we will give us the best possible chance of finding April which is our priority. Volunteers, who had been congregating at the local leisure centre since this morning, are now helping with a mass police-organised search for April. Each group, consisting of 20 people and led by an expert, has been given an assigned area to scour. Police hope this organised and methodical approach will be much more effective - and hopefully successful - in tracing the youngster. Reports said the advice given to those taking part was not to pick up any piece of child's clothing they discovered, in case such an item may yield key forensic clues.