A suspected device discovered at a property in east Belfast during a security alert has been made safe and removed for further forensic examination.
The security alert began in the Dee Street area earlier on Monday but has now ended.
A number of other items, including a quantity of suspected class B drugs, were also recovered during the search by officers from the Paramilitary Crime Task Force investigating the activities of the West Belfast UDA.
A man, aged 31, and a woman, aged 33, have been arrested under the Terrorism Act.
Two further linked searches took place at properties in south Belfast and east Belfast, where a number of other items including a small quantity of class B drugs and electronics, were seized.