POLICE have seized a motor bike following multiple reports it has been ridden in an ‘anti-social’ way in Dawlish and Kenton.

Police from the Dawlish and Rural Neighbourhood Team announced the seizure on Friday afternoon.

Officers said they will continue to ‘pursue, seize and dispose’ of bikes under the Road Traffic Act and Police Reform Act powers.

A spokesman said: ‘When they are ridden both on and off road, they cause significant risk to the riders, who are often children, other road users and the wider public.’

They appealed to the public to report and photograph, if safe to do so, any sightings of bikes.

They also want to know where they are kept so they can ‘pay the owners a visit in the near future’. The antti-social riding behaviour has been described as a ‘menace’ in Dawlish.

There have been reports of bikes, day and night, using the hill leading up from the Teignmouth Inn in Dawlish.

Claims that the bike have been ‘adjusted’ which go at ‘epic’ speeds and making unbearable noise. speeds and unbearable noice. Appalling that this is allowed.

One resident said it was ‘appalling’.

There have been further reports of roads in new housing developments in Dawlish being used as a ‘race track’ late at night.

Another resident described one bike as driving or ‘flying’ up Stockton Hill and Hospital Hill in the town centre.

A regular group of bikers has been reported in Dawlish Warren going at ‘ridiculous’ speeds.

Anyone with information or photographs of suspect bikes can upload and report vehicles through the police website at https://orlo.uk/jn6so or by calling 999 in an emergency or 101.