CLEVELAND police will launch a crackdown on speeding drivers, illegal use of motorbikes in reserves and hoons.
Sergeant Mark Thomas said marked and unmarked cars would be used, including plain clothes officers, to catch offenders.
He said the effort was in response to complaints by residents about dangerous motorists.
Residents have reported hoons doing burnouts, drifting and speeding at night on streets including Ormiston’s Northern Arterial Road, Cleveland’s Bloomfield Street and South Street at Thornlands.
Cleveland police would boost patrols of hooning hot spots in an effort to curb illegal behaviour, Sergeant Thomas said.
He said eight drivers were also nabbed for travelling up to 25-kilometres over the speed limit on Bloomfield Street on Monday afternoon.
The peak-hour sting by police had targeted traffic travelling south, but an unmarked police vehicle equipped with radar, was also being used to book drivers at other locations.
Police were also watching activity at Victoria Point’s Point Halloran Conservation Area to catch motorbikes being driven through bushland from Link Road and Aspect Drive.
“Over the past few months, a small group of motorbike riders have been using the pathway and park as a thoroughfare and short cut to cut between streets,” Sergeant Thomas said.
“The bikes can travel at high speeds and sometimes in groups of two through the park are where there are regularly pedestrians and children playing in the playground and using the footpaths.”
