POLICE have clamped down on "boy racers" who have appropriated a retail park to perform stunts in front of small crowds.

Barriers and bollards have been installed in every car park in Enfield Retail Park, in Crown Road, after Southbury Safer Neighbourhoods team filmed and then arrested a number of people performing stunts there last October.

These included drifting or powersliding, doughnuts (compete 360 degree turns) wheelspin and handbrake turns which generates large amounts of noise and smoke from the tyres.

They have arrested several people for criminal damage to the road surface and driving without due care and attention. Other drivers have received up to eight points on their licence and some drivers have been threatened with losing their cars if they are caught again.

Sergeant Stuart Gill, of the Southbury Safer Neighbourhoods Team said: "We have been patrolling the area to gather evidence of what is occurring on the site and I was appalled at the standard of some of the driving. We have videoed some of their antics and it is clear that the 360 degree turns and drifting are dangerous and are causing damage to the road surface. The car parks themselves are a road as far as the law is concerned and as such any poor driving will get the same punishment as if on the highway. We expect to arrest many more suspects in the coming weeks.”

Demetri Kasabi, who works for Car Craft, on Chalkmill Drive which is in the Retail Park, said he had heard the engines of "about three" cars between 4 to 6pm on Sunday when he was at work. "It has been going on for months," he said.