Footage from the moment Cleo Smith was rescued by WA police officers has been released, after they kicked down a door to find her.

The officer who went through the door and asked the little girl for her name described the moment as one he would never forget.

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Though Detective Sergeant Blaine knew he had found Cleo, he wanted confirmation from the child he found sitting on a bed in the backroom of a Carnarvon house.

“To see her sitting there, was incredible,” he said.

“I asked her what her name was as one of the guys jumped in front of me and picked her up.

“I just wanted to be absolutely sure. It certainly looked like Cleo, I wanted to be sure and I asked her ‘what’s your name?’ and she didn’t answer and I said ‘what’s your name?’, she didn’t answer again so I asked a third time and she looked at me and said ‘my name is Cleo’.

“And that was it, we turned around and walked out of that house.”

In the footage, Sergeant Blaine can be heard introducing himself to Cleo while another officer holds her.

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“My name’s Cameron, how are you? We’re going to take you to see your mummy and daddy, OK? Is that good?”

Cleo then nods her head to both questions.

Sergeant Blaine said going on to make the call to Cleo’s parents was “a wonderful feeling”.

“You can imagine just absolute surprise and they were absolutely ecstatic,” he said. “Things developed so quickly we didn’t really have time to prepare them and certainly didn’t want to give them any false expectations about what might happen, we didn’t know ourselves.”

Cleo’s parents were told their little girl was physically fine and that they could meet while Cleo was being checked over at the local hospital.

Upon seeing her parents, Cleo screamed “mummy” and the family shared hugs, kisses, and tears.

Sergeant Blaine also said that Cleo was “very trusting and open” with officers as they talked to her and took evidence.

“I have to say having seen her a couple of times this morning she’s a little Energiser Bunny and how she has that much energy, I wish I did I’m just about ready to go to sleep but she is very sweet, energetic girl, very trusting and open with us, we all wanted to take turns holding her,” he said.

The man who was taken into custody at the scene has been “assisting police” with their inquiries, according to Police Commissioner Chris Dawson.

He said the reunion of Cleo with her parents was “a thrilling and proud moment”, and it was “an outcome you hope for”.

He gave full credit to the team of police officers and intelligence analysts who pored over “thousands and thousands” of pieces of information.

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