Halifax police are investigating after what looks like a skimming device was found on a bank machine at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth over the weekend.

Police investigators inspected and removed what Const. Dianne Woodworth calls a "possible" skimming device on Sunday around 3 p.m..

Woodworth declined to say exactly where the device was found on the machine — a private ATM that's operated by Alderney Landing.

Skimmers are small electronic devices that fit over the card slot on an ATM and can read the information on the card and pass it along to thieves.

Woodworth says police aren't sure that's what they found.

"Until it is deemed an actual skimming device, we don't want to say that it is," she said.

She said their skimming "experts" are investigating.

It was the only incident of its kind reported over the weekend.

Woodworth said if people notice anything suspicious on an bank machine they could call the bank, the ATM owner, or the police.

Alderney Landing referred comment to the police, but did say they've never had trouble with anything like this before.