Vandals have damaged a Wiltshire market place in the latest anti-social disturbance to hit the town.
Officers at Devizes Neighbourhood Policing Team were alerted to the incident at Devizes Market Place on Monday, July 18.
According to a member of the Devizes CCTV team, eight youths were involved, although three of them did the majority of the damage.
A CCTV operator told the Gazette and Herald: "There was a group of youths around the town centre at around about 2.40am and they proceeded to chuck boards around outside Superdrug and then chucked bollards around and also damaged flower displays.
"They smashed a flower pot and knocked down another one.
"They damaged a road traffic bollard and one of them decided to (jump on) a car roof.
"They were caught on CCTV right under my big camera and the footage is being passed on to the police, so if they want to come and admit liability before the law gets involved, I'd encourage them to own up."
Officers are now treating this as an anti-social behaviour incident as well as criminal damage.
Wiltshire Police is working with Devizes Town Council's CCTV team to try and identify those responsible, and has also urged anyone whose property was damaged to get in touch.
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A spokesperson for the police force added: "Devizes Neighbourhood Policing Team are aware of the damage and anti-social behaviour that occurred in the early hours of this morning in the Market Place.
"We will be working with Devizes CCTV to identify those responsible.
"We would ask anyone who has had property damaged to contact us on 101 or use our online reporting system so that we can investigate accordingly.
"Rest assured that those responsible will be dealt with robustly."
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