Police in Dundee are probing a second vandalism spree after 13 portable cabins and a health centre were daubed with graffiti.
Officers are investigating a link between the damage in Robertson Street and a trail of graffiti in the city’s West End last week.
The graffiti on council portable cabins in Robertson Street is believed to have appeared around the same time, but was only reported when noticed by council workers returning to work after holidays this week.
The south wall of the nearby Taybank Medical Centre was also vandalised.
PC Dave Gallacher from Maryfield police station said: “It’s an eyesore for the folk who live here, a lot of whom are elderly.
“The council have to make good the damage and we all have to pay for that. The cabins are for work going on between here and King Street and they have all has been targeted.”
Officers are conducting door to door inquiries into the incidents, but it is understood that the medical centre’s CCTV does not cover the targeted wall.
Taybank Medical Centre declined to comment on the damage when contacted by The Courier.
One resident of Lilybank Terrace, which overlooks the vandalised cabins, said the latest graffiti was “bringing the area down”.
She said: “It’s not nice. It’s a fairly quiet area here, but it seems to be all over the place these days. I just think it’s kids with too much time on their hands and too little to do.”
Maryfield councillor Craig Melville said: “It’s shocking. It’s totally unwarranted and very unsightly.
“There are folk out there who know who did it and I hope they will contact the police.”
Similar graffiti tags bearing the letters AMC and BZK were sprayed on scores of properties on Blackness Road, Norwood Crescent, Dickson Avenue and Glamis Road last week.
Red and yellow spray-painted marks appeared on garage doors, masonry and bins on July 29.
The Robertson Street cabins were spray painted some time between Friday July 19 and Thursday July 31 and Taybank Medical Centre was targeted between Friday July 26 and Monday July 29.
A police spokeswoman said: “There is nothing whatsoever to be achieved by vandalism.
“Where offences are reported to Tayside Division, it will carry out appropriate inquiries and where offenders are identified they will be robustly dealt with.
“The division urges people not to tolerate vandalism but to report it immediately.”