Napier police investigating Tuesday's robbery of an elderly woman have identifed a man allegedly involved in the incident after an overwhelming response from the public to a CCTV image they released.
The man was filmed on a CCTV camera as he stood by a cash machine outside the Napier Pak'nSave supermarket just after 9am that day.
After the robbery police appealed to businesses and stores in the area to go through security footage from Tuesday between 9am and 10am in the hope the offenders were caught on film.
The image handed to police was picked up by security staff at the supermarket who noticed the man matched a description given to police. He was described as having a beard and was wearing a purple cap and brown T-shirt.
"We asked all businesses in the area to look at their footage and this one came up," Eastern Districts Police communications manager Kris McGehan said.