Plain-clothes police will be called in to tackle yobs who are making life a misery for residents of a Dundee housing scheme.
Officers will be deployed on to the streets of Whitfield to catch youngsters who are breaking into building sites and lobbing stones at buses, cars and homes.
Uniformed police have already taken the names of dozens of people who are alleged to have been involved in vandalism so there is a “solid intelligence base to start from” should further incidents occur.
At a meeting focusing on community issues in the city’s North East ward, Community Sergeant Jamie Allen said tackling antisocial behaviour was the main focus under an operation named Valiant.
He said: “Local police in this area have four objectives we are focusing on.
“These are road safety, drug dealing and misuse, house break-ins and antisocial behaviour, the biggest thing that affects the area.
“Within Whitfield alone, the acts of antisocial behaviour are affecting the parks and the local bus routes the crimes also go hand-in-hand with the vandalism that has taken place in the area’s various construction sites.
“And, through Valiant, which reports information helping community safety depending on what the safety targets for the area are, we have taken more than 30 names that police in the area are interested in.”